Abstract
A critical factor in the study of herpesviruses, their genes and gene functions is the capacity to derive mutants that harbor deletions, truncations, or insertions within the genetic elements of interest. Once constructed the impact of the introduced mutation on the phenotypic properties of the rescued virus can be determined in either in vitro or in vivo systems. However, the construction of such mutants by traditional virological mutagenesis techniques can be a difficult and laborious undertaking. The maintenance of a viral genome as an infectious bacterial artificial chromosome (iBAC), however, endows the capacity to manipulate the viral genome for mutagenesis studies with relative ease. Here, the construction and characterization of two gene deletion mutants of an alphaherpesvirus maintained as iBAC in combination with an inducible homologous recombination system in Escherichia coli is detailed. The methodology is generally applicable to any iBAC and is demonstrated to be a highly efficient and informative approach for mutant virus construction.
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Robinson, K.E., Mahony, T.J. (2015). Herpesvirus Mutagenesis Facilitated by Infectious Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes (iBACs). In: Narayanan, K. (eds) Bacterial Artificial Chromosomes. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1227. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1652-8_8
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