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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 16, Pages 9365-9372Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00567-13
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- Agencia Argentina de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica [PICT-2010]
- NIH [1R01AI095175-01]
- DARPA [HR001111C0094]
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Dengue virus cycles between mosquitoes and humans. Each host provides a different environment for viral replication, imposing different selective pressures. We identified a sequence in the dengue virus genome that is essential for viral replication in mosquito cells but not in mammalian cells. This sequence is located at the viral 3' untranslated region and folds into a small hairpin structure. A systematic mutational analysis using dengue virus infectious clones and reporter viruses allowed the determination of two putative functions in this cis-acting RNA motif, one linked to the structure and the other linked to the nucleotide sequence. We found that single substitutions that did not alter the hairpin structure did not affect dengue virus replication in mammalian cells but abolished replication in mosquito cells. This is the first sequence identified in a flavivirus genome that is exclusively required for viral replication in insect cells.
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