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ArticleViruses2018

A Mechanism Underlying Attenuation of Recombinant Influenza A Viruses Carrying Reporter Genes.

Xiujuan Zhao, Lin Wang, Qinghua Cui, Ping Li, Yanyan Wang, Yingying Zhang, Yong Yang, Lijun Rong, Ruikun Du

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Article in Viruses, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Xiujuan ZhaoCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. xiujuan95@163.com.
Lin WangCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. lynn942@163.com.
Qinghua CuiCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. user753951@163.com.
Ping LiCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. liping9309@163.com.
Yanyan WangCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. yyw0196@163.com.
Yingying ZhangShandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Antiviral Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. zyy8965@163.com.
Yong YangShandong Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center for Antiviral Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. yy7204@163.com.ORCID 0000-0003-3298-1440
Lijun RongDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. lijun@uic.edu.
Ruikun DuCollege of Pharmacy, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250355, China. duzi857@163.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9172-7824
Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza A viruses (IAV) carrying reporter genes provide a powerful tool to study viral infection and pathogenesis in vivo, however, incorporating a non-essential gene into the IAV genome often results in virus attenuation and genetic instability. Very few studies have systematically compared different reporter IAVs, and most optimization attempts seem to lack authentic directions. In this study, we evaluated the ratio of genome copies to the number of infectious unit of two reporter IAVs, PR8-NS1-Gluc and PR8-PB2-Gluc. As a result, PR8-NS1-Gluc and PR8-PB2-Gluc produced 41.4 and 3.8 genomes containing noninfectious particles respectively for every such particle produced by parental PR8 virus. RdRp assay demonstrated that modification of segment NS by inserting reporter genes can interfere with the replication competitive property of the corresponding vRNAs, and the balance of the 8 segments of the reporter IAVs were drastically impaired in infected cells. As a consequence, large amounts of NS-null noninfectious particles were produced during the PR8-NS1-Gluc packaging. In summary, we unravel a mechanism underlying attenuation of reporter IAVs, which suggests a new approach to restore infectivity and virulence by introducing extra mutations compensating for the impaired replication property of corresponding segments.

Indexed as

Genes, ReporterGenetic EngineeringAnimalsCell LineGene OrderGenetic VectorsGenome, ViralHumansInfluenza A virusRNA, ViralVirus ReplicationRNA, Viralattenuationinfluenza A virusmechanismnoninfectious particlesreporter virusvRNA replication

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PMID30513620
PMCPMC6316390
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