id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-354582-fniymnmf Ma, Zhiqian Reverse genetic systems: Rational design of coronavirus live attenuated vaccines with immune sequelae 2020-06-30 .txt text/plain 8373 423 44 In this review, we systematically describe the role of reverse genetics technology in studying the effects of coronavirus proteins on viral virulence and innate immunity, cell and tissue tropism and antiviral drug screening. Recently, reverse genetics techniques, including targeted RNA recombination, in vitro ligation and bacterial artificial chromosome systems, vaccinia virus vectors and transformation associated recombination (TAR) cloning, have been successfully used to manipulate the genome of coronaviruses (Fig. 2 ). Using a recombinant SARS-CoV strain with reduced nsp3 de-ADP-ribosylation activity showed that this mutant strain led to virus attenuation in mice but protected them from an otherwise lethal SARS-CoV infection and significantly enhanced the innate immune response, indicating that it is an important virulence factor for SARS-CoV . The N protein plays an important role in viral pathogenesis since BALB/c mice immunized with recombinant virus MVA-MERS-N exhibit stronger T cell responses and anti-N monoclonal antibodies protect mice from lethal infection by MHV (Nakanaga et al., 1986; Veit et al., 2018) . ./cache/cord-354582-fniymnmf.txt ./txt/cord-354582-fniymnmf.txt