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VIROLOGY
卷 308, 期 1, 页码 37-47出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6822(02)00046-6
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG04342] Funding Source: Medline
Passage of the prototypic arenavirus lymphocytic choriomenigitis virus (LCMV) in cultured cells in the presence of the mutagenic agent 5-fluorouracil (FU) resulted in efficient and systematic virus extinction under conditions that did not significantly affect cell survival. FU-mediated extinction of LCMV was associated with 3.6- to 10-fold increases in the mutation frequencies for the three viral genes examined, but with only very modest effects on virus replication and transcription during a single round of infection. Likewise, FU did not affect expression of a LCMV minigenome. In contrast, the well documented antiviral effect of ribavirin against LCMV was not associated with significant increases in virus mutation frequencies, but rather with a dramatic inhibition of both viral RNA synthesis and LCMV minigenome expression. Mutagen induced viral extinction has been recently reported for positive strand RNA viruses polio and foot-and-mouth disease, and the lentivirus HIV-1. Our findings indicate that lethal mutagenesis can be effective also against LCMV, a negative strand RNA virus. Moreover, FU treatment prevented the establishment of LCMV persistent infection in mice deficient in B and T cells, suggesting the feasibility in vivo of lethal mutagenesis as a novel antiviral strategy. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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