Isolation of an avirulent mutant of Sendai virus with two amino acid mutations from a highly virulent field strain through adaptation to LLC-MK2 cells.

doi:10.1099/0022-1317-78-12-3207

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Isolation of an avirulent mutant of Sendai virus with two amino acid mutations from a highly virulent field strain through adaptation to LLC-MK2 cells.

The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 1997

Itoh M, Isegawa Y, Hotta H, Homma M

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A field strain of Sendai virus (SeV) Ohita-M1 (M1) was isolated from an epidemic in an animal laboratory by passaging in mice. A mutant strain, Ohita-MVC11 (MVC11), was then obtained by passaging M1 in rhesus monkey (LLC-MK2) cells. MVC11 was adapted to LLC-MK2 cells and produced 20 times higher...

Topics

Amino Acids
Animals
Cell Line
Genome, Viral
Lung
Macaca mulatta
Mice
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Respirovirus
Virulence

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