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ArticleThe Journal of general virology2010

Development and characterization of promoterless helper RNAs for the production of alphavirus replicon particle.

K I Kamrud, K Alterson, M Custer, J Dudek, C Goodman, G Owens, J F Smith

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Article in The Journal of general virology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

K I KamrudAlphaVax, Inc., 2 Triangle Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA. Kamrud@alphavax.com
K Alterson
M Custer
J Dudek
C Goodman
G Owens
J F Smith
Research Triangle Park Foundation · USAlphaVax (United States) · US

Funding

Alphavirus Replicon Vaccines against Botulinum NeurotoxinU01AI057286 · NIAID · ALPHAVAX HUMAN VACCINES, INC. · PI OLMSTED, ROBERT A. · 2003 to 2007
$9.0M
NIAID NIH HHS 5 U01 AI057286-03NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI057286
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alphavirus-based replicon systems are frequently used as preclinical vectors and as antigen discovery tools, and they have recently been assessed in clinical vaccine trials. Typically, alphavirus replicon RNAs are delivered within virus-like replicon particles (VRP) that are produced following transfection of replicon RNA and two helper RNAs into permissive cells in vitro. The non-structural proteins expressed from the replicon RNA amplify the replicon RNA in cis and the helper RNAs in trans, the latter providing the viral structural proteins necessary to package the replicon RNA into VRP. Current helper RNA designs incorporate the alphavirus 26S promoter to direct the transcription of high levels of structural gene mRNAs. We demonstrate here that the 26S promoter is not required on helper RNAs to produce VRP and propose that such promoterless helper RNAs, by design, reduce the probability of generating replication-competent virus that may otherwise result from RNA recombination.

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AlphavirusAnimalsBase SequenceChlorocebus aethiopsGene Expression Regulation, ViralGenetic VectorsMolecular Sequence DataPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA, ViralVero CellsVirus ReplicationRNA, Viral

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PMID20181749
PMCPMC2888770
OpenAlexW2061252521

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