Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus
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March 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...reviewed in 2, 5). The minigenome is capable of being replicated and transcribed in the cell when the appropriate...study aspects of the EBOV replication cycle under BSL-2 conditions (4).
What is a minigenome?
The EBOV ...nonsegmented negative sense RNA viruses (reviewed in 2, 3).
Other important components of the Zaire ebola...as it would for a full-length viral genome (Figure 2).
While it is technically possible to encode all four...500 ng NP, 500 ng VP35, 100 ng VP30, 100 ng L, and 2 μg minigenome plasmid per well (in a 6 well plate ...PubMed PMID: 9847328. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC103829.
2. Conzelmann, K. K. "Reverse genetics of mononegavirales...choose cell lines that are highly transfectable.
The amounts of each plasmid transfected into cells are ...