Complete nucleotide sequence of a novel porcine circovirus-like agent and its infectivity in vitro  

作　　者：WEN LiBin1, HE KongWang1, YANG HanChun2, NI YanXiu1, ZHANG XueHan1, GUO RongLi1 & PAN QunXin1 1 Key Laboratory of Animal and Poultry Diseases Diagnostic of the Ministry of Agriculture, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China 2 Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, China 

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2008年第5期453-458,共6页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：the State Key Basic Research Project (973 project) of China (Grant No. 2007CB116308);Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. 5910602);Postdoctoral Funds of Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China (Grant No. 6510501)

摘　　要：A novel agent (hence termed as P2) was isolated from pig sera in China, which contained covalently bound circular genomic DNAs of 993 nucleotides. Sequence analyses indicated that the agent was closely related to the porcine circovirus (PCV). The molecular clone of P2 was constructed subsequently and used for the following studies. Intracytoplasmic inclusions and intranuclear inclusions were only found in PK-15 cells transfected with the tandem dimer of P2 molecular DNA clone. Intracytoplasmic inclusions were round or irregular in shape and 0.1-0.4 μm in diameter, and intranuclear inclusions were electronically denser than intracytoplasmic inclusions and had two general shapes: round/small (0.1 μm in diameter) and hexagonal/large (0.5―1.4 μm in diameter). The inclusions were not membranously bound. The cells transfected with the tandem dimer of P2 molecular DNA clone were tested positive for P2 DNA at passages 5. The P2 antigen could be detected in both transfected and passaged PK-15 cells. This is the first report regarding the complete nucleotide sequence of a small DNA genome in a circovirus-like infectious agent in vitro.A novel agent (hence termed as P2) was isolated from pig sera in China, which contained covalently bound circular genomic DNAs of 993 nucleotides. Sequence analyses indicated that the agent was closely related to the porcine circovirus (PCV). The molecular clone of P2 was constructed subsequently and used for the following studies. Intracytoplasmic inclusions and intranuclear inclusions were only found in PK-15 cells transfected with the tandem dimer of P2 molecular DNA clone. Intracytoplasmic inclusions were round or irregular in shape and 0.1-0.4 μm in diameter, and intranuclear inclusions were electronically denser than intracytoplasmic inclusions and had two general shapes: round/small (0.1 μm in diameter) and hexagonal/large (0.5―1.4 μm in diameter). The inclusions were not membranously bound. The cells transfected with the tandem dimer of P2 molecular DNA clone were tested positive for P2 DNA at passages 5. The P2 antigen could be detected in both transfected and passaged PK-15 cells. This is the first report regarding the complete nucleotide sequence of a small DNA genome in a circovirus-like infectious agent in vitro.

关 键 词：P2 PORCINE CIRCOVIRUS molecular CLONE PK-15 cells 

分 类 号：S852.65[农业科学—基础兽医学]