Model-based design of growth-attenuated viruses
- Authors
- Lim, KI (Lim, Kwang-il); Lang, T (Lang, Tobias); Lam, V (Lam, Vy); Yin, J (Yin, John)
- Issue Date
- Sep-2006
- Publisher
- PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
- Citation
- PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, v.2, no.9, pp 1001 - 1016
- Pages
- 16
- Journal Title
- PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
- Volume
- 2
- Number
- 9
- Start Page
- 1001
- End Page
- 1016
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/148562
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020116
- ISSN
- 1553-734X
1553-7358
- Abstract
- Live-virus vaccines activate both humoral and cell-mediated immunity, require only a single boosting, and generally provide longer immune protection than killed or subunit vaccines. However, growth of live-virus vaccines must be attenuated to minimize their potential pathogenic effects, and mechanisms of attenuation by conventional serial-transfer viral adaptation are not well-understood. New methods of attenuation based on rational engineering of viral genomes may offer a potentially greater control if one can link defined genetic modifications to changes in virus growth. To begin to establish such links between genotype and growth phenotype, we developed a computer model for the intracellular growth of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a well-studied, nonsegmented, negative-stranded RNA virus. Our model incorporated established regulatory mechanisms of VSV while integrating key wild-type infection steps: hijacking of host resources, transcription, translation, and replication, followed by assembly and release of progeny VSV particles. Generalization of the wild-type model to allow for genome rearrangements matched the experimentally observed attenuation ranking for recombinant VSV strains that altered the genome position of their nucleocapsid gene. Finally, our simulations captured previously reported experime
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