| Literature DB >> 22238294 |
Francisca de la Iglesia1, Fernando Martínez, Julia Hillung, José M Cuevas, Philip J Gerrish, José-Antonio Daròs, Santiago F Elena.
Abstract
A potential drawback of recent antiviral therapies based on the transgenic expression of artificial microRNAs is the ease with which viruses may generate escape mutations. Using a variation of the classic Luria-Delbrück fluctuation assay, we estimated that the spontaneous mutation rate in the artificial microRNA (amiR) target of a plant virus was ca. 6 × 10(-5) per replication event.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22238294 PMCID: PMC3302333 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.06909-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103