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ArticleVirology2010

A varicella-zoster virus mutant impaired for latency in rodents, but not impaired for replication in cell culture.

Aruna P N Ambagala, Tammy Krogmann, Jing Qin, Lesley Pesnicak, Jeffrey I Cohen

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Article in Virology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aruna P N AmbagalaMedical Virology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Tammy Krogmann
Jing Qin
Lesley Pesnicak
Jeffrey I Cohen
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Molecular Biology Of Varicella Zoster Virus InfectionZIAAI000430 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI COHEN, JEFFREY · 2009 to 2025
$4.5M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI000430
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While trying to generate a site-directed deletion in the ORF63 latency-associated gene of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) Oka, we constructed a virus with an unexpected rearrangement. The virus has a small deletion in both copies of ORF63 and two copies of a cassette inserted between ORFs 64/65 and 68/69 containing (a) truncated ORF62, (b) ORF63 with a small deletion, and (c) full-length ORF64. The virus was not impaired for growth in human cells, induced higher levels of neutralizing antibodies in guinea pigs, and was impaired for latency in cotton rats compared with parental virus (p=0.0022). Additional mutants containing the same truncation in ORF62, with or without the ORF63 deletion, were less impaired for latency. A VZV Oka mutant, replicating to similar titers and inducing a comparable immune response as parental virus, but impaired for latency, might serve as a safer vaccine and be less likely to reactivate to cause zoster.

Indexed as

Virus LatencyAnimalsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralCell Line, TumorDNA, ViralFemaleGuinea PigsHerpesvirus 3, HumanHerpes ZosterHumansImmediate-Early ProteinsSequence DeletionSigmodontinaeViral Envelope ProteinsAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibodies, ViralDNA, Viralimmediate early protein 63, Human herpesvirus 3Immediate-Early ProteinsViral Envelope Proteins

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PMID20116820
PMCPMC3398405
OpenAlexW2011491705

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