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Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes: A Functional Genomics Tool for the Study of Positive-strand RNA Viruses
Published on: December 29, 2015
Recent advances in cloning herpesviral genomes as infectious bacterial artificial chromosomes
1Tumor virology Program, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Abstract:
Herpesviruses are common but important pathogens in humans and animals. These viruses have large complex genomes encoding genes with diverse functions in different phases of their life cycle and associated diseases. In the last decade, genomes of herpesviruses cloned as infectious bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) have become powerful tools for delineating the functions of viral genes and understanding the pathogenesis of their associated diseases. Here we review the history of herpesviral genetics and recent advances in methods for cloning herpesviral genomes as infectious BACs.
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