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A mutant of Sindbis virus which is able to replicate in cells with reduced CTP makes a replicase/transcriptase with a decreased Km for CTP.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2004
Li Mei-Ling, Lin Yen-Huei, Simmonds H Anne, Stollar Victor
Abstract excerpt
We reported earlier the isolation and characterization of a Sindbis virus mutant, SV(PZF), that can grow in mosquito cells treated with pyrazofurin (PZF), a compound that interferes with pyrimidine biosynthesis (Y. H. Lin, P. Yadav, R. Ravatn, and V. Stollar, Virology 272:61-71, 2000; Y. H. Lin, H. A. Simmonds, and V. Stollar, Virology 292:78-86, 2002). Three amino acid changes in nsP4, the viral RNA polymerase,...
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