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Rewiring the RNAs of influenza virus to prevent reassortment.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 15 Sept 2009
Gao Qinshan, Palese Peter
Abstract excerpt
Influenza viruses contain segmented, negative-strand RNA genomes. Genome segmentation facilitates reassortment between different influenza virus strains infecting the same cell. This phenomenon results in the rapid exchange of RNA segments. In this study, we have developed a method to prevent the free reassortment of influenza A virus RNAs by rewiring their packaging signals. Specific packaging signals for...
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