Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus
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Blog Post
Published
March 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...choose cell lines that are highly transfectable.
The amounts of each plasmid transfected into cells are ... polymerase gene or using cells that stably express T7 (e.g. BSR T7/5 cells) (1).
We hope that minigenomes...capable of being replicated and transcribed in the cell when the appropriate viral proteins are provided... RNA-dependent RNA polymerase into the infected cells. The EBOV polymerase replicates the viral genome...on separate plasmids and are co-transfected into cells alongside a plasmid encoding the minigenome. These...the minigenome) are efficiently transfected into cells. All of these components are necessary to efficiently... RNA polymerase also needs to be present in the cells to transcribe the viral mRNAs and minigenome. This...