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Equine arteritis virus (EAV) is the etiological agent of equine viral arteritis, a contagious viral disease of equids. EAV is the prototype virus of the arteriviruses, a group of small enveloped viruses with positive single-stranded RNA genomes. Because apoptosis or programmed cell death is believed to play an important role in the biogenesis of several cytopathogenic viruses, we examined whether EAV was able to induce cell apoptosis in vitro. To do this, Vero cells were infected with EAV at a multiplicity of infection of 0.1 tissue culture infectious dose (TCID50) per cell, and analyzed at various time intervals for the appearance of apoptotic signs. Fragmentation of chromosomal DNA into nucleosomal oligomers and caspase activation were observed in the infected cells at the time (e.g. 24 h postinfection) where a noticeable cytopathic effect was observed. The kinetics of the DNA fragmentation correlated with that of the production of progeny virus, so that viral multiplication was not interrupted by the apoptotic cell damage. All these data provide evidence that EAV is able to induce apoptotic cell death in vitro.
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Archambault, D., St-Laurent, G. Induction of Apoptosis by Equine Arteritis Virus Infection. Virus Genes 20, 143–147 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008122715387
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