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A Protocol for Analyzing Hepatitis C Virus Replication
Published on: June 26, 2014
Identification of specific regions in hepatitis C virus core, NS2 and NS5A that genetically interact with p7 and
H Gouklani1, C Beyer, H Drummer
1The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
Abstract:
The p7 protein of hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a small, integral membrane protein that plays a critical role in virus replication. Recently, we reported two intergenotypic JFH1 chimeric viruses encoding the partial or full-length p7 protein of the HCV-A strain of genotype 1b (GT1b; Virology; 2007; 360:134). In this study, we determined the consensus sequences of the entire polyprotein coding regions of the wild-type JFH1 and the revertant chimeric viruses and identified predominant amino acid substitutions in core (K74M), NS2 (T23N, H99P) and NS5A (D251G). Forward genetic analysis demonstrated that all single mutations restored the infectivity of the defective chimeric genomes suggesting that the infectious virus production involves the association of p7 with specific regions in core, NS2 and NS5A. In addition, it was demonstrated that the NS2 T23N facilitated the generation of infectious intergenotypic chimeric virus encoding p7 from GT6 of HCV.
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