Construction and characterization of bacterial artificial chromosomes harboring the full-length genome of a highly attenuated vaccinia virus LC16m8.

LC16m8 (m8), a highly attenuated vaccinia virus (VAC) strain, was developed as a smallpox vaccine, and its safety and immunogenicity have been confirmed. Here, we aimed to develop a system that recovers infectious m8 from a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) that retains the full-length viral gen...

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Main Authors: Tomoki Yoshikawa, Hikaru Fujii, Akiko Okutani, Miho Shibamura, Natsumi Omura, Kazutaka Egawa, Hirofumi Kato, Takuya Inagaki, Shizuko Harada, Souichi Yamada, Shigeru Morikawa, Masayuki Saijo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5825015?pdf=render