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VACCINE
Volume 23, Issue 30, Pages 3946-3956Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2005.03.004
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tick-bome encephalitis virus; replicon; virus-like particles
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The sub-genomic replicon of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus (Far-Eastern subtype) was packaged into infectious particles by providing the viral structural proteins in trans. Sequential transfection of TBE replicon RNA and a plasmid that expressed the structural proteins led to the secretion of infectious particles that contained TBE replicon RNA. The secreted particles had single-round infectivity, which was inhibited by TBE virus-neutralizing antibody. The physical structure of the particles was almost identical to that of infectious virions, and the packaged replicon RNA showed no recombination with the mRNAs of the viral structural proteins. Furthermore, heterologous genes were successfully delivered and expressed by packaging TBE replicon RNA with inserted GFP and Neo, genes. This replicon packaging system may be a useful tool for the molecular study of the TBE virus genome packaging mechanism, and for the development of vaccine delivery systems. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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