Abstract
Cell-free synthesis of an infectious virus is an ideal tool for elucidating the mechanism of viral replication and for development of antiviral drugs. In this chapter, the synthesis of Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) from RNA and DNA in a HeLa cell extract-derived in vitro protein expression system is described. When a synthetic EMCV RNA with a hammerhead ribozyme sequence at its 5′-end is incubated with a HeLa cell extract using a dialysis system, EMCV particles are progressively synthesized. For EMCV synthesis from DNA, a plasmid harboring the full-length cDNA of EMCV with the T7 promoter/terminator unit is incubated in the HeLa cell extract supplemented with T7 RNA polymerase.
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Kobayashi, T., Machida, K., Imataka, H. (2014). Human Cell Extract-Derived Cell-Free Systems for Virus Synthesis. In: Alexandrov, K., Johnston, W. (eds) Cell-Free Protein Synthesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1118. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-782-2_9
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