@article{mbs:/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/vir.0.024083-0, author = "Alcaraz-Estrada, Sofia L. and Manzano, Mark Irvin M. and Del Angel, Rosa M. and Levis, Robin and Padmanabhan, R.", title = "Construction of a dengue virus type 4 reporter replicon and analysis of temperature-sensitive mutations in non-structural proteins 3 and 5", journal= "Journal of General Virology", year = "2010", volume = "91", number = "11", pages = "2713-2718", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.024083-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/vir.0.024083-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1465-2099", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Replicon systems have been useful to study mechanisms of translation and replication of flavivirus RNAs. In this study, we constructed a dengue virus 4 replicon encoding a Renilla luciferase (R luc) reporter, and six single-residue substitution mutants were generated: L128F and S158P in the non-structural protein (NS) 3 protease domain gene, and N96I, N390A, K437R and M805I in the NS5 gene. The effects of these substitutions on viral RNA translation and/or replication were examined by measuring R luc activities in wild-type and mutant replicon RNA-transfected Vero cells incubated at 35, 37 and 39 °C. Our results show that none of the mutations affected translation of replicon RNAs; however, L128F and S158P of NS3 at 39 °C, and N96I of NS5 at 37 and 39 °C, presented temperature-sensitive (ts) phenotypes for replication. Furthermore, using in vitro methyltransferase assays, we identified that the N96I mutation in NS5 exhibited a ts phenotype for N7-methylation, but not for 2′-O-methylation.", }