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Generation and comparative genomics of synthetic dengue viruses

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Bioinformatics, May 2018
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Title
Generation and comparative genomics of synthetic dengue viruses
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BMC Bioinformatics, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12859-018-2132-3
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Eli Goz, Yael Tsalenchuck, Rony Oren Benaroya, Zohar Zafrir, Shimshi Atar, Tahel Altman, Justin Julander, Tamir Tuller

Abstract

Synthetic virology is an important multidisciplinary scientific field, with emerging applications in biotechnology and medicine, aiming at developing methods to generate and engineer synthetic viruses. In particular, many of the RNA viruses, including among others the Dengue and Zika, are widespread pathogens of significant importance to human health. The ability to design and synthesize such viruses may contribute to exploring novel approaches for developing vaccines and virus based therapies. Here we develop a full multidisciplinary pipeline for generation and analysis of synthetic RNA viruses and specifically apply it to Dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2). The major steps of the pipeline include comparative genomics of endogenous and synthetic viral strains. Specifically, we show that although the synthetic DENV-2 viruses were found to have lower nucleotide variability, their phenotype, as reflected in the study of the AG129 mouse model morbidity, RNA levels, and neutralization antibodies, is similar or even more pathogenic in comparison to the wildtype master strain. Additionally, the highly variable positions, identified in the analyzed DENV-2 population, were found to overlap with less conserved homologous positions in Zika virus and other Dengue serotypes. These results may suggest that synthetic DENV-2 could enhance virulence if the correct sequence is selected. The approach reported in this study can be used to generate and analyze synthetic RNA viruses both on genotypic and on phenotypic level. It could be applied for understanding the functionality and the fitness effects of any set of mutations in viral RNA and for editing RNA viruses for various target applications.

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Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 6 18%
Researcher 6 18%
Student > Master 5 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 7 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 12%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Engineering 2 6%
Other 5 15%
Unknown 10 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 June 2018.
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#7,509,418
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#2,713
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#120,037
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Bioinformatics
#35
of 106 outputs
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