Development and characterization of recombinant tick-borne encephalitis virus expressing mCherry reporter protein: A new tool for high-throughput screening of antiviral compounds, and neutralizing antibody assays

Autor: Jiri Volf, Jean-Sélim Driouich, Daniel Ruzek, Kentaro Yoshii, Jiri Cerny, Ludek Eyer, Martin Palus, Antoine Nougairède, Xavier de Lamballerie, Ernest A. Gould, Shintaro Kobayashi, Jan Haviernik
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Antiviral Research. 185:104968
ISSN: 0166-3542
Popis: The flavivirus, tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is transmitted by Ixodes spp. ticks and may cause severe and potentially lethal neurological tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in humans. Studying TBEV requires the use of secondary methodologies to detect the virus in infected cells. To overcome this problem, we rationally designed and constructed a recombinant reporter TBEV that stably expressed the mCherry reporter protein. The resulting TBEV reporter virus (named mCherry-TBEV) and wild-type parental TBEV exhibited similar growth kinetics in cultured cells; however, the mCherry-TBEV virus produced smaller plaques. The magnitude of mCherry expression correlated well with progeny virus production but remained stable over
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