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Production of infectious chimeric hepatitis C virus genotype 2b harboring minimal regions of JFH-1.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2012
Murayama Asako, Kato Takanobu, Akazawa Daisuke, Sugiyama Nao, Date Tomoko, Masaki Takahiro, Nakamoto Shingo, Tanaka Yasuhito, Mizokami Masashi, Yokosuka Osamu, Nomoto Akio, Wakita Takaji
Abstract excerpt
To establish a cell culture system for chimeric hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 2b, we prepared a chimeric construct harboring the 5' untranslated region (UTR) to the E2 region of the MA strain (genotype 2b) and the region of p7 to the 3' UTR of the JFH-1 strain (genotype 2a). This chimeric RNA (MA/JFH-1.1) replicated and produced infectious virus in Huh7.5.1 cells. Replacement of the 5' UTR of this chimera with...
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