Abstract
It was shown recently that 15 successive passages of a laboratory strain of the Coxsackie B virus 5 in a mouse pancreas (CBV-5-MPP) resulted in apparent changes in the virus phenotype, which led to the capacity to induce a diabetes-like syndrome in mice. For further characterization of islet cell interactions with a passaged virus strain, a murine insulinoma cell line, MIN-6, was selected as an experimental model. The CBV-5-MPP virus strain was not able to replicate in MIN-6 cells in vitro but required adaptation over a few days for progeny production and the generation of cytopathic effects. In order to determine the genetic characteristics required for virus growth in MIN-6 cells, the whole genome of the MIN-6-adapted virus variant was sequenced, and critical amino acids were identified by comparing the sequence with that of a virus strain passaged repeatedly in the mouse pancreas. The results of site-directed mutagenesis demonstrated that only one residue, amino acid 94 of VP1, is a major determinant for virus adaptation to MIN-6 cells.
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