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Involvement of a joker mutation in a polymerase-independent lethal mutagenesis escape mechanism.
Virology - 1 Jul 2016
Agudo Rubén, de la Higuera Ignacio, Arias Armando, Grande-Pérez Ana, Domingo Esteban
Abstract excerpt
We previously characterized a foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) with three amino acid replacements in its polymerase (3D) that conferred resistance to the mutagenic nucleoside analogue ribavirin. Here we show that passage of this mutant in the presence of high ribavirin concentrations resulted in selection of viruses with the additional replacement I248T in 2C. This 2C substitution alone (even in the absence of...
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