Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Defective viral genomes as therapeutic interfering particles against flavivirus infection in mammalian and mosquito hosts

  • Veronica V. Rezelj,
  • Lucía Carrau,
  • Fernando Merwaiss,
  • Laura I. Levi,
  • Diana Erazo,
  • Quang Dinh Tran,
  • Annabelle Henrion-Lacritick,
  • Valérie Gausson,
  • Yasutsugu Suzuki,
  • Djoshkun Shengjuler,
  • Bjoern Meyer,
  • Thomas Vallet,
  • James Weger-Lucarelli,
  • Veronika Bernhauerová,
  • Avi Titievsky,
  • Vadim Sharov,
  • Stefano Pietropaoli,
  • Marco A. Diaz-Salinas,
  • Vincent Legros,
  • Nathalie Pardigon,
  • Giovanna Barba-Spaeth,
  • Leonid Brodsky,
  • Maria-Carla Saleh,
  • Marco Vignuzzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22341-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Defective viral genomes (DVGs) can interfere with virus replication and provide a potential approach to control infection. Here, Rezelj et al. use a combined experimental evolution and computational approach to identify DVG sequences that optimally interfere with Zika virus infection and show antiviral activity in mice and mosquitoes.