Blanchard Emmanuelle, Brand Denys, Trassard Sylvie, Goudeau Alain, Roingeard Philippe
Laboratoire de Virologie, E3M-EA3250, IFR 82, Faculté de Médecine et Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Tours, France.
J Virol. 2002 Apr;76(8):4073-9. doi: 10.1128/jvi.76.8.4073-4079.2002.
Although much is known about the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome, first cloned in 1989, little is known about HCV structure and assembly due to the lack of an efficient in vitro culture system for HCV. Using a recombinant Semliki forest virus replicon expressing genes encoding HCV structural proteins, we observed for the first time the assembly of these proteins into HCV-like particles in mammalian cells. This system opens up new possibilities for the investigation of viral morphogenesis and virus-host cell interactions.
尽管人们对1989年首次克隆的丙型肝炎病毒(HCV)基因组了解很多,但由于缺乏用于HCV的高效体外培养系统,对HCV的结构和组装知之甚少。利用表达编码HCV结构蛋白基因的重组Semliki森林病毒复制子,我们首次观察到这些蛋白在哺乳动物细胞中组装成HCV样颗粒。该系统为研究病毒形态发生和病毒-宿主细胞相互作用开辟了新的可能性。