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- Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of Varicella-zoster virus strains isolated from Korean patients
- Min Ho Kim , Jeong Seon Jeon , In Kyo Kim , Ji Seon Park , Hosun Park , Ok Sarah Shin , Chan Hee Lee
- J. Microbiol. 2017;55(8):665-672. Published online July 28, 2017
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-017-7171-3
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- Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a causative agent of chickenpox in primary infection and shingles after its reactivation from latency. Complete or almost-complete genomic DNA sequences for various VZV strains have been reported. Recently, clinical VZV strains were isolated from Korean patients whose genome was sequenced using high-throughput sequencing technology. In this study, we analyzed single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of VZV strains to genetically characterize Korean clinical isolates. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that three Korean strains, YC01, YC02, and YC03, were linked to clade 2. Comprehensive SNP analysis identified 86 sites specific for the 5 VZV clades. VZV strains isolated from Korea did not form a phylogenetic cluster. Rather, YC02 and YC03 clustered strongly with Chinese strain 84-7 within clade 2, more specifically cluster 2a. Signature sequences for the cluster 2a were identified and found to play an important role in the separation of cluster 2a strains from other clade 2 strains, as shown in substitution studies. Further genetic analysis with additional strains isolated from Japan, China, and other Asian countries would provide a novel insight into the significance of two distinct subclades within clade 2.
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- Generation of Infectious Transcripts from Korean Strain and Mild Mottle Strain of Potato Virus X
- Sun Hee Choi , Ki Hyun Ryu
- J. Microbiol. 2008;46(5):502-507. Published online October 31, 2008
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-008-0078-2
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- Full-length cDNAs of two different strains of Potato virus X (PVX-Kr and PVX-Mo) have been directly amplified by long template reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) using the 5’-end primer containing a SP6 or T7 RNA promoter sequence and the virus-specific 3’-end primer, and then constructed in plasmid vectors. Capped in vitro transcripts from cloned full-length cDNAs as well as those RTPCR amplicons proved to be infectious systemically on tobacco plants. Symptom expression on tobacco plants from PVX-Mo transcripts was faster and severer than that from PVX-Kr. In replication stability test of transcripts derived from PVX clones, progeny viruses showed stable replication according to sequencing through passages. This highly infectious transcript system from the full-length cDNA clones for PVX can be useful for recombinant molecules for functional analysis of viral proteins in plant-virus interaction study as well as for expression of foreign protein in planta.
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