Article
MicroRNA targeting of neurotropic flavivirus: effective control of virus escape and reversion to neurovirulent phenotype.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2012
Heiss Brian L, Maximova Olga A, Thach Dzung C, Speicher James M, Pletnev Alexander G
Abstract excerpt
Neurotropic flaviviruses can efficiently replicate in the developing and mature central nervous systems (CNS) of mice causing lethal encephalitis. Insertion of a single copy of a target for brain-expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) in the 3' noncoding region (3'NCR) of the flavivirus genome (chimeric tick-borne encephalitis virus/dengue virus) abolished virus neurovirulence in the mature mouse CNS. However, in the...
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