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SUBMITTER: de la Iglesia F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3302333 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de la Iglesia Francisca F Martínez Fernando F Hillung Julia J Cuevas José M JM Gerrish Philip J PJ Daròs José-Antonio JA Elena Santiago F SF
Journal of virology 20120111 6
A potential drawback of recent antiviral therapies based on the transgenic expression of artificial microRNAs is the ease with which viruses may generate escape mutations. Using a variation of the classic Luria-Delbrück fluctuation assay, we estimated that the spontaneous mutation rate in the artificial microRNA (amiR) target of a plant virus was ca. 6 × 10(-5) per replication event. ...[more]