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1
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Consequences of mutation

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  • Opportunity for adaptation
  • Risk of losing advantages/properties
2
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What are the causes of mutation

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Failures in NA replication of:

  • Cell
  • DNA virus
  • RNA virus
3
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Give the types of mutation incidence

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Spontaneous/Induced

4
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Causes of induced mutation

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  • Irradiation
  • Mutagenic drugs - halogenated uridine
5
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Give the forms of mutation that can occur in the NA chain

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  • Point mutation
  • Sequence mutations
  • Substitution
  • Insertion
  • Deletion
  • Inversion
    • Frame shift
6
Q

Give the final types of mutation

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  • Silent mutation
  • Lethal mutation
  • Conditionally lethal mutation
  • Beneficial mutation
7
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Silent mutation

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  • No phenotypic change
  • Untranslated region
  • Redundant translation code
  • Non-important amino acid produced
8
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Lethal mutation

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Nonsense (stop)

or

Missense (amino acid change)

9
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Conditionally lethal mutation

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Changes in the multiplication activity

i.e. Thermo-sensitive mutants

10
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Give the history of CPV2

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  1. 1978: CPV2
  2. 1979: CPV2a
  3. 1984: CPV2b
  4. 2000: CPV2c
11
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List the influences of mutations on the viral phenotype

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  • Antigenic change
  • Changes in host species specificity
  • Changes in organ specificity
  • Different tissue tropism (cell cultures)
  • Virulence variants
  • Cytopathic effects, plaque formation
  • Temperature optimum
12
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Antigenic change

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  • Escape mutants
  • Influenza - antigenic drift
13
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Changes in host species specificity

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  • Feline panleukopenia → Canin parvoenteritis
  • SIV → HIV
14
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Changes in organ specificity

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  • EHV1: Abortion ⇔ EHV4: rhinopneumonitis
  • IBR: Rhinotracheitis ⇔ IPV: vulvo-vaginitis
15
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Different tissue tropism (cell cultures)

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Bovine adenovirus - Kidney/testicular cells

16
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Virulence variants

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  • Newcastle disease: Lento-, Meso-, velogenic strains
  • Avian influenza: Haemagglutinin protease cleavage site
17
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Cytopathic effects, plaque formation

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Aujeszky’s disease virus, BVDV

18
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Temperature optimum

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  • Rhinoviruses, canine herpesvirus
  • Rabies vaccine strains
19
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Effect of mutation on evolution

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  • Selective advantages
  • Environmental pressure
    • Adaptation, niche
  • Virus’ evolution is a million times quicker than the host’s
20
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Mutation opportunity for protection

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  • Avirulent strains with conserved antigenic properties
    • Attenuated vaccine strains
  • Biotechnology, genetic engineering: Accuracy
21
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Mutation effection virus strain stabilisation

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  • Protection from mutations - low passages
  • Seed virus, virus banks
  • Freeze drying