Article
Identification of VP1/2A and 2C as virulence genes of hepatitis A virus and demonstration of genetic instability of 2C.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2002
Emerson Suzanne U, Huang Ying K, Nguyen Hanh, Brockington Alicia, Govindarajan Sugantha, St Claire Marisa, Shapiro Max, Purcell Robert H
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen different chimeric virus genomes were constructed from two infectious cDNA clones encoding a virulent and an attenuated isolate, respectively, of the HM175 strain of hepatitis A virus. The ability of each recombinant virus to infect tamarins and to cause acute hepatitis was determined. Comparisons of the genotype and phenotype of each virus suggested that VP1/2A and 2C genes were responsible for...
Topics
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins
- Cysteine Endopeptidases
- Genotype
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis A virus
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Recombination, Genetic
- Saguinus
- Viral Nonstructural Proteins
