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A full-length infectious cDNA clone of a dsRNA totivirus-like virus
Han Wang1, Diogo de Matos Filipe1, Kenta Okamoto1
1Program in Molecular Biophysics, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Abstract:
Totivirus-like viruses are a group of non-segmented double-stranded (ds)RNA viruses with two open reading frames, which were recently discovered and provisionally assigned to the Totiviridae family. Unlike yeast and protozoan Totiviridae viruses, these totivirus-like viruses infect a diverse spectrum of metazoan hosts and currently have enormous impacts on fisheries and agriculture. We developed the first infectious full-length cDNA clone of a totivirus-like virus, the Omono River virus (OmRV), and produced infectious particles using an RNA-transcript-based method. Compared with the parent wild-type particles from nature, the infectious-cloning OmRV particles have presented strong cytopathic effects, infectivity and similar morphology. Thus far, the established system is one of the few reported systems for generating a non-segmented dsRNA virus cDNA clone.
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