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Adaptation of a genotype 3 hepatitis E virus to efficient growth in cell culture depends on an inserted human gene segment acquired by recombination.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2012
Shukla P, Nguyen H T, Faulk K, Mather K, Torian U, Engle R E, Emerson S U
Abstract excerpt
An infectious cDNA clone of a genotype 3 strain of hepatitis E virus adapted to growth in HepG2/C3A human hepatoma cells was constructed. This virus was unusual in that the hypervariable region of the adapted virus contained a 171-nucleotide insertion that encoded 58 amino acids of human S17 ribosomal protein. Analyses of virus from six serial passages indicated that genomes with this insert, although initially...
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