id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-326719-p1ma4akz Enjuanes, Luis Virus-based vectors for gene expression in mammalian cells: Coronavirus 2003-12-31 .txt text/plain 5923 282 52 Coronaviruses have several advantages as vectors over other viral expression systems: (1) coronaviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses that replicate within the cytoplasm without a DNA intermediary, making integration of the virus genome into the host cell chromosome unlikely, (2) these viruses have the largest RNA virus genome and, in principle, have room for the insertion of large foreign genes, (3) a pleiotropic secretory immune response is best induced by the stimulation of gut-associated lymphoid tissues, (4) the tropism of coronaviruses may be modified by manipulation of the spike (S) protein allowing engineering of the tropism of the vector, (5) non-pathogenic coronavirus strains infecting most species of interest (human, porcine, bovine, canine, feline, and avian) are available to develop expression systems, and (6) infectious coronavirus cDNA clones are available to design expression systems. ./cache/cord-326719-p1ma4akz.txt ./txt/cord-326719-p1ma4akz.txt