Objectives : We have been carrying out the research projects regarding avian influenza virus isolation and genetic characterization from wild migratory birds and domestic poultry with many collaborating institutes. Therefore, the main objects of this ...
Objectives : We have been carrying out the research projects regarding avian influenza virus isolation and genetic characterization from wild migratory birds and domestic poultry with many collaborating institutes. Therefore, the main objects of this research project are first, screening the viruses which have any potential threat to human infections among our isolates; second, obtaining the selected clones of isolates, and then producing the recombinant avian influenza viruses by reverse genetic method.
Methods :
RNA extraction from the H1, H2, H3, H5, H7, H9, N1, N2, and N7 subtypes of avian influenza viruses, RT reaction for cDNA and then cloning into RNA Pol1- driven vector.
In case of HPAI, removal of connecting peptide on HA segment to produce the high viral titer strains in embryonated eggs.
Establish the standard procedures for infectious recombinant virus rescue by 8 plasmid co-transfection into cells.
Rescue the recombinant viruses of H1, H2, H3, H5, H7, H9, N1, N2, and N7 subtypes of avian influenza viruses containing 6 internal genes of PR/8/34 virus.
Determine the viral titer of the rescued virus by HI, CPE and PFU assays.
Results
We set up the reverse genetic methods for avian influenza virus rescue and standardized the protocol for recombinant viruses using A/PR/8/34 virus.
We successively selected H1, H2, H3, H5, H7, and H9 subtypes from our previous virus isolates and cloned into pHW2000 vector.
We successively selected N1, N2, and N7 subtypes from our previous virus isolates and cloned into pHW2000 vector.
We produced the H1N1, H1N2, H1N7, H3N2, H5N1, H5N2, H5N7, H7N1, H7N2, and H7N7subtypes of recombinant viruses containing the 6 internal genes of A/PR/8/34 vaccine parental virus.