A synthetic biology approach for a vaccine platform against known and newly emerging serotypes of bluetongue virus.

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Bluetongue is one of the major infectious diseases of ruminants and is caused by bluetongue virus (BTV), an arbovirus existing in nature in at least 26 distinct serotypes. Here, we describe the development of a vaccine platform for BTV. The advent of synthetic biology approaches and the development of reverse genetics systems has allowed the rapid and reliable design and production of pathogen genomes which can be subsequently manipulated for vaccine production. We describe BTV vaccines based on "synthetic" viruses in which the outer core proteins of different BTV serotypes are incorporated into a common tissue-culture-adapted backbone. As a means of validation for this approach, we selected two BTV-8 synthetic reassortants and demonstrated their ability to protect sheep

SUBMITTER: Nunes SF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4248921 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature