NDLI: Evidence for Segment-Nonspecific Packaging of the Influenza A Virus Genome

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Author	Bancroft, Christa T. Parslow, Tristram G.
Copyright Year	2002
Abstract	The influenza A virus genome is composed of eight negative-sense RNA segments (called vRNAs), all of which must be packaged to produce an infectious virion. It is not clear whether individual vRNAs are packaged specifically or at random, however, and the total vRNA capacity of the virion is unknown. We have created modified forms of the viral nucleoprotein (NP), neuraminidase (NA), and nonstructural (NS) vRNAs that encode green or yellow fluorescent proteins and studied the efficiency with which these are packaged by using a plasmid-based influenza A virus assembly system. Packaging was assessed precisely and quantitatively by scoring transduction of the fluorescent markers in a single-round infectivity assay with a flow cytometer. We found that, under conditions in which virions are limiting, pairs of alternatively tagged vRNAs compete for packaging but do so in a nonspecific manner. Reporters representing different vRNAs were not packaged additively, as would be expected under specific packaging, but instead appeared to compete for a common niche in the virion. Moreover, 3 to 5% of transduction-competent viruses were found to incorporate two alternative reporters, regardless of whether those reporters represented the same or different vRNAs — a finding compatible with random, but not with specific, packaging. Probabilistic estimates suggest that in order to achieve this level of dual transduction by chance alone, each influenza A virus virion must package an average of 9 to 11 vRNAs.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jvi.76.14.7133-7139.2002
Ending Page	7139
Page Count	7
Starting Page	7133
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0022538X
e-ISSN	10985514
Journal	Journal of Virology
Issue Number	14
Volume Number	76
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Microbiology
Publisher Date	2002-07-15
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Microbiology
Subject Keyword	Immunology Virology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Virology Immunology Microbiology Insect Science

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