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Engineering recombinant replication-competent bluetongue viruses expressing reporter genes for
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- Longitudinal in vivo imaging reveals asynchronous, incomplete Nipah virus clearance with prolonged focal CNS involvement in IFNAREmerging microbes & infections · 2026Article
- Expression of bluetongue virus core proteins VP2 and VP7 by bovine herpesvirus-4 confers protection against virulent challenge in a mouse model.Veterinary research · 2026Article
- Rapid Quantification of Bluetongue Virus-Neutralizing Antibodies Using Bioluminescent Reporter-Expressing Viruses.Vaccines · 2025Article
- Visualization and tracking of tubule-derived, fluorescent-labeled NS1 as a marker of bluetongue virus in living cells.Journal of virology · 2025Article
- Novel replication-competent reporter-expressing Rift Valley fever viruses for molecular studies.Journal of virology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Bluetongue virus (BTV) is the causative agent of the important livestock disease bluetongue (BT), which is transmitted via Culicoides bites. BT causes severe economic losses associated with its considerable impact on health and trade of animals. By reverse genetics, we have designed and rescued reporter-expressing recombinant (r)BTV expressing NanoLuc luciferase (NLuc) or Venus fluorescent protein. To generate these viruses, we custom synthesized a modified viral segment 5 encoding NS1 protein with the reporter genes located downstream and linked by the Porcine teschovirus-1 (PTV-1) 2A autoproteolytic cleavage site. Therefore, fluorescent signal or luciferase activity is only detected after virus replication and expression of non-structural proteins. Fluorescence or luminescence signals were detected in cells infected with rBTV/Venus or rBTV/NLuc, respectively. Moreover, the marking of NS2 protein confirmed that reporter genes were only expressed in BTV-infected cells. Growth kinetics of rBTV/NLuc and rBTV/Venus in Vero cells showed replication rates similar to those of wild-type and rBTV. Infectivity studies of these recombinant viruses in IFNAR(-/-) mice showed a higher lethal dose for rBTV/NLuc and rBTV/Venus than for rBTV indicating that viruses expressing the reporter genes are attenuated
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