Variable episomal silencing of a recombinant herpesvirus renders its encoded GFP an unreliable marker of infection in primary cells.

The availability of reliable recombinant reporter virus systems has been a great boon to the study of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8). Unexpectedly, we found that expression of the ostensibly constitutive green fluorescent protein (GFP) marker was progressively lost during...

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Main Authors: Thomas J Ellison, Dean H Kedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4234296?pdf=render