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ArticleViruses2021

An MHV-68 Mutator Phenotype Mutant Virus, Confirmed by CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing of the Viral DNA Polymerase Gene, Shows Reduced Viral Fitness.

Erika Trompet, Arturo Temblador, Sarah Gillemot, Dimitrios Topalis, Robert Snoeck, Graciela Andrei

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Article in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Erika TrompetLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0249-9776
Arturo TembladorLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-3076-6317
Sarah GillemotLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Dimitrios TopalisLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Robert SnoeckLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Graciela AndreiLaboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute for Medical Research, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2609-4896
Rega Institute for Medical Research · BE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug resistance studies on human γ-herpesviruses are hampered by the absence of an in vitro system that allows efficient lytic viral replication. Therefore, we employed murine γ-herpesvirus-68 (MHV-68) that efficiently replicates in vitro as a model to study the antiviral resistance of γ-herpesviruses. In this study, we investigated the mechanism of resistance to nucleoside (ganciclovir (GCV)), nucleotide (cidofovir (CDV), HPMP-5azaC, HPMPO-DAPy) and pyrophosphate (foscarnet (PFA)) analogues and the impact of these drug resistance mutations on viral fitness. Viral fitness was determined by dual infection competition assays, where MHV-68 drug-resistant viral clones competed with the wild-type virus in the absence and presence of antivirals. Using next-generation sequencing, the composition of the viral populations was determined at the time of infection and after 5 days of growth. Antiviral drug resistance selection resulted in clones harboring mutations in the viral DNA polymerase (DP), denoted Y383S

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGenes, ViralMutationAmino Acid SubstitutionAnimalsCell LineCodonDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseGenetic FitnessGenotypeHumansMiceModels, MolecularPhenotypeProtein ConformationCodonDNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseCRISPR/Cas9 precise gene editingDNA polymerase 2drug resistance 3herpesviruses 1mutator phenotype 4viral fitness 5

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PMID34073189
PMCPMC8227558
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