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Characterization of an infectious clone of the wild-type yellow fever virus Asibi strain that is able to infect and disseminate in mosquitoes

Kate L. McElroy

Konstantin A. Tsetsarkin

Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Keiller 2.104, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA

Correspondence
Stephen Higgs
sthiggs{at}utmb.edu

Infectious clone technology provides an opportunity to study the molecular basis of arthropod–virus interactions in detail. This study describes the development of an infectious clone of the prototype yellow fever virus Asibi strain (YFV-As) with the purpose of identifying sequences or domains that influence infection dynamics in the mosquito vector. The full-length cDNA of YFV-As virus was produced from RT-PCR products of parental viral RNA. These were cloned into a low-copy-number plasmid previously used to develop the YFV-17D infectious clone (pACNR/FLYF-17D). Virus recovered from the infectious clone exhibited biological characteristics similar to those of the parental YFV-As, including replication kinetics, reactivity to flavivirus cross-reactive and YFV-specific antibodies and infection and dissemination rates in Aedes aegypti, the principal mosquito vector of YFV. These data provide the basis for future studies with chimeric Asibi/17D viruses to identify the determinants of vaccine attenuation in the vector.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequence of the YFV-As infectious clone is AY640589.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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