Reverse Genetic Approaches for the Generation of Recombinant Zika Virus

Viruses

Luis Martínez-Sobrido¹  Ginés Ávila-Pérez¹  Aitor Nogales¹  Fernando Almazán²  Verónica Martín² 

[1] Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA;Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Campus Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 3 Darwin street, 28049 Madrid, Spain;

关键词: flavivirus;    Zika virus (ZIKV);    reverse genetics;    infectious clone;    full-length molecular clone;    bacterial artificial chromosome;    replicon;    infectious RNA;   

DOI  :  10.3390/v10110597

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Zika virus (ZIKV) is an emergent mosquito-borne member of the Flaviviridae family that was responsible for a recent epidemic in the Americas. ZIKV has been associated with severe clinical complications, including neurological disorder such as Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults and severe fetal abnormalities and microcephaly in newborn infants. Given the significance of these clinical manifestations, the development of tools and reagents to study the pathogenesis of ZIKV and to develop new therapeutic options are urgently needed. In this respect, the implementation of reverse genetic techniques has allowed the direct manipulation of the viral genome to generate recombinant (r)ZIKVs, which have provided investigators with powerful systems to answer important questions about the biology of ZIKV, including virus-host interactions, the mechanism of transmission and pathogenesis or the function of viral proteins. In this review, we will summarize the different reverse genetic strategies that have been implemented, to date, for the generation of rZIKVs and the applications of these platforms for the development of replicon systems or reporter-expressing viruses.

【 授权许可】

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