The DNA replication, virogenesis and infection of canine minute virus in non-permissive and permissive cells

Abstract Canine minute virus (CnMV), a kind of autonomous parvovirus, is a member of genus bocavirus in parvovirdae family. In our previous study, we constructed and obtained infectious clones of CnMV, analyzed genome characteristics, RNA transcription profile, and revealed some molecular mechanisms of cytopathic effect of target cells. The purpose of this study was to investigate DNA replication, virogenesis and infectious tropism of CnMV in non-permissive and permissive cells. We demonstrated that the genomic DNA of CnMV, besides WRD cells, could replicate significantly in some non-permissive cells (CrFK, EBtR and COS-7) following transfection with infectious clone of CnMV, pI-MVC. Moreover, by using Western blotting and immunofluorescence, we found that the NS1 protein of CnMV was obviously expressed in both 293, CrFK, EBtR and COS-7 cells transfected with pI-MVC. Meanwhile, two-rounds of reinfection on WRD cells (blind passage) of the transfected cell lysates in CrFK, EBtR and COS-7cells tranfected with pI-MVC showed that pI-MVC could produce infectious virions in these types of non-permissive cells. Furthermore, it is confirmed that CnMV only infected WRD cells (permissive cells for CnMV), could not infect any non-permissive cells including CrFK, EBtR, COS-7, HK293, A549 and A9 cells. Taken together, for the first time, we have demonstrated that bocavirus CnMV DNA could replicate and form infectious progeny virus in some non-permissive cells. And what is more, unlike other parvoviruses, CnMV did not infect some non-permissive cells, although the DNA replication of CnMV occurred in these cells.