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Baculoviruses generally produce two progeny phenotypes—the budded virus (BV) and the occlusion-derived virus (ODV)—and the intricate mechanisms that regulate the temporal synthesis of the two phenotypes are critical for the virus replication cycle, which are far from being clearly understood. FP25K was reported to be responsible for the regulation of BV/ODV, and the mutations within result in a decrease of normal ODVs formation and an increase of BVs production. In this study, we demonstrated that the increase of BV titer in an  fp25k  knockout recombinant ( fp25k -negative) was a result of higher infectivity of BVs rather than an increased production of BVs. The constitution of the major structural proteins and genome of parental and  fp25k -negative BVs were analyzed. The results showed that the integrity of the majority of DNA packaged into the  fp25k -negative BVs was intact; i.e., the genomic DNA of  fp25k -negative BV had better transformation and transfection efficiency than that of the parental virus, indicating more intact genomes in the virions. Although the analysis of proteins associated with BVs revealed that more envelope protein GP64 were incorporated into the  fp25k -negative BVs, subsequent experiments suggested that overexpression of GP64 did not improve the titer of BVs. Thus, we conclude that the main reason for higher infectivity of BVs is due to better genome integrity, which benefits from the deletion of  fp25k  resulting in increased stability of the genome and produce a higher proportion of infectious BVs. FP25K acts as a negative factor for the infectivity of BV.

The FP25K Acts as a Negative Factor for the Infectivity of AcMNPV Budded Virus