Article
Lethal mutagenesis of foot-and-mouth disease virus involves shifts in sequence space.
Journal of virology - 1 Dec 2011
Perales Celia, Henry Michel, Domingo Esteban, Wain-Hobson Simon, Vartanian Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Lethal mutagenesis or virus transition into error catastrophe is an antiviral strategy that aims at extinguishing a virus by increasing the viral mutation rates during replication. The molecular basis of lethal mutagenesis is largely unknown. Previous studies showed that a critical substitution in the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) polymerase was sufficient to allow the virus to escape extinction through...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
