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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2024

Large-Scale Culture and Plasmid Preparation Procedure for Low-Yield Bacmids Containing Full-Length SARS-CoV-2 cDNAs.

Megha Rohamare, Anil Kumar, Joyce A Wilson

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2024. 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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3 authors.

Megha RohamareDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Anil KumarDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Joyce A WilsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. joyce.wilson@usask.ca.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reverse genetic methods to manipulate viral genomes are key tools in modern virological experimentation. They allow for the generation of reporter virus genomes to simplify the assessment of virus growth and for the analysis of the impact of specific mutations in the genome on virus phenotypes. For SARS-CoV-2, reverse genetic systems are complicated by the large size of the viral genome and the instability of certain genomic sections in bacteria requiring the use of low-copy number bacterial artificial chromosome plasmids (bacmids). However, even with the use of bacmids, faithfully amplifying SARS-CoV-2 bacmids is often challenging. In this chapter, we describe a detailed protocol to grow SARS-CoV-2 bacmids and highlight the challenges and optimal techniques to produce large quantities of SARS-CoV-2 bacmids that are free of deletions and mutations. Overall, this chapter has recapitulated an overview of the maxi-preparation procedure for large unstable bacmids like SARS-CoV-2 to facilitate downstream applications.

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Chromosomes, Artificial, BacterialCOVID-19DNA, ComplementaryGenome, ViralPlasmidsSARS-CoV-2HumansReverse GeneticsRNA, ViralDNA, ComplementaryRNA, ViralEfficiencyLow yieldMaxi-prepOptimizationPlasmid recoverySARS-CoV-2Troubleshooting

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