Genome Sequence of the Parainfluenza Virus 5 Strain That Persistently Infects AGS Cells
Elizabeth Wignall-Fleming1, Dan F Young2, Steve Goodbourn3
1MRC - University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
Genome Announcements
|July 23, 2016
Abstract:
We have sequenced the parainfluenza virus 5 strain that persistently infects the commonly used AGS human cell line without causing cytopathology. This virus is most closely related to human strains, indicating that it may have originated from biopsy material or from laboratory contamination during generation of the cell line.


