Supawat Chatchen. Using Palaya Ringsport virus (PRSV) as an antigen presentation system . Doctoral Degree(Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Using Palaya Ringsport virus (PRSV) as an antigen presentation system
Abstract:
Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) causes a serious disease of papaya in many
countries including Thailand. PRSV is considered to be a candidate for expressing a
foreign antigen. PRSV coat protein (CP) can be used as a carrier molecule to present a
foreign antigen. The CP is characterized into three major parts: the core region
responsible for protein folding, and the N and C terminal regions, which are exposed
to the surface. In this study, the Canine parvovirus (CPV) VP2 epitope is used as a
model antigen due to its well-characterized antigenic properties and small size of only
15 amino acids. Construction of the full-length PRSV cDNA clones enables the
modification of the PRSV for introducing CPV epitope. The aims of this thesis were
to generate chimeric infectious clones of PRSV-CPV as well as to evaluate the
positional effect of CP-CPV in the E. coli system.
Several expression plasmids containing the wild-type of cp gene and modified
cp-cpv genes were constructed (pSA1299, pSA1300, pSA1301, pSA1302 and
pSA1303). The modified CP-CPV fusion proteins were purified and used for
intraperitoneal injection into mice. The immunogenicity of the modified CP-CPV was
characterized by NCM-ELISA analysis comparing with the anti CPV monoclonal
antibody (3C9). Sera from group of, pSA1301 and pSA1302, containing CPV epitope
inserted at the position on the C-terminus or both N and C-termini can trigger the
mouse immune response more efficient than the epitope inserted at N-terminus or the
epitope substitution at the C-terminus.
Five chimeric full-length PRSV-CPV cDNA under the control of partially
duplicated CaMV 35S promoter and NOS terminator were constructed. No symptoms
were observed using particle gun bombardment inoculation of tested plants with
pSA1335, pSA1359, pSA1360 and pSA1384. Only the pSA1385, obtained by
inserting the CPV epitope sequence and HindIII site at the end of the cp gene,
generated the infection symptom on the inoculated zucchini. However, the introduced
HindIII site was not detected by the RT-PCR and restriction analysis. A similar result
was also observed from the pSA1388 inoculated plants. The sequencing result
revealed the same sequence as original pSA1164 in the modified region.
The CPV epitope inserted at the C-terminus of PRSV CP exhibited the
strongest immune response. The result from the modification of infectious PRSV
cDNA produced in this study implied that modification on PRSV sequence can affect
its infectivity and contamination of the original clone pSA1164 may cause infection in
the pSA1385 and pSA1388 bombarded plants