id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-259500-ndjbrtrv Satyanarayana, Tatineni Frameshift mutations in infectious cDNA clones of Citrus tristeza virus: a strategy to minimize the toxicity of viral sequences to Escherichia coli 2003-09-01 .txt text/plain 6465 322 60 title: Frameshift mutations in infectious cDNA clones of Citrus tristeza virus: a strategy to minimize the toxicity of viral sequences to Escherichia coli These data demonstrate that, when hosts are sufficiently susceptible for infection by transcripts of reduced specific infectivity, introduction of frameshift mutations at "slippery sequences" near toxic regions of viral cDNAs can be used as an additional strategy to clone recalcitrant viral sequences in high-copy-number plasmids for reverse genetics. A similar frameshift mutation was also found in the derivative replicon pCTV-⌬Cla. However, the sequence of the progeny virion RNA of CTV9 from infected protoplasts or citrus plants did not contain the additional nt at position 3732 that occurred in the cDNA clones, suggesting that the frameshift mutation present in the original cDNA clone was repaired either during the in vitro transcription or during replication in the protoplasts. ./cache/cord-259500-ndjbrtrv.txt ./txt/cord-259500-ndjbrtrv.txt