Abstract
Infectious virus clones are one of the most powerful tools in plant pathology, molecular biology, and biotechnology. The construction of infectious clones of RNA and DNA viruses, however, usually requires laborious cloning and subcloning steps. In addition, instability of the RNA virus genome is frequently reported after its introduction into the vector and transference to Escherichia coli. These difficulties hamper the cloning procedures, making it tedious and cumbersome. This chapter describes two protocols for a simple construction of infectious viruses, an RNA virus, the tobamovirus Pepper mild mottle virus, and a DNA virus, a bipartite begomovirus. For this purpose, the strategy of overlap-extension PCR was used for the construction of infectious tobamovirus clone and of rolling circle amplification (RCA) for the construction of a dimeric form of the begomovirus clone.
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Nagata, T., Inoue-Nagata, A.K. (2015). Simplified Methods for the Construction of RNA and DNA Virus Infectious Clones. In: Uyeda, I., Masuta, C. (eds) Plant Virology Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1236. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1743-3_18
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