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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
Volume 91, Issue -, Pages 2713-2718Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.024083-0
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- National Institutes of Health [AI54776, AI57705, AI70791, AI082068]
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Replicon systems have been useful to study mechanisms of translation and replication of flavivirus RNAs. In this study, we constructed a dengue virus 4 replicon encoding a Renilla luciferase (R-luc) reporter, and six single-residue substitution mutants were generated: L128F and S158P in the non-structural protein (NS) 3 protease domain gene, and N96I, N390A, K437R and M805I in the NS5 gene. The effects of these substitutions on viral RNA translation and/or replication were examined by measuring R-luc activities in wild-type and mutant replicon RNA-transfected Vero cells incubated at 35, 37 and 39 degrees C. Our results show that none of the mutations affected translation of replicon RNAs; however, L128F and S158P of NS3 at 39 degrees C, and N96I of NS5 at 37 and 39 degrees C, presented temperature-sensitive (ts) phenotypes for replication. Furthermore, using in vitro methyltransferase assays, we identified that the N96I mutation in NS5 exhibited a ts phenotype for N7-methylation, but not for 2'-O-methylation.
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