Multiple viral determinants mediate myopathogenicity in coxsackievirus B1-induced chronic inflammatory myopathy.

ABSTRACT: Mice infected with myopathic coxsackievirus B1 Tucson (CVB1(T)) develop chronic inflammatory myopathy (CIM) consisting of hind limb weakness and inflammation. Amyopathic virus variants are infectious but attenuated for CIM. In this report, viral clones, chimeras, and sequencing were used to identify viral determinants of CIM. Chimeras identified several regions involved in CIM and localized a weakness determinant to nucleotides 2493 to 3200 of VP1. Sequencing of multiple clones and viruses identified five candidate determinants that were strictly conserved in myopathic viruses with one located in the 5' untranslated region (UTR), three in the VP1 capsid, and one in the 3C protease. Taken together, these studies implicate Tyr-87 and/or Val-136 as candidate determinants of weakness. They als

SUBMITTER: Tam PE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC229355 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature