Influenza A Virus Defective Viral Genomes Are Inefficiently Packaged into Virions Relative to Wild-Type Genomic RNAs

Abstract

Defective interfering particles (DIPs) are commonly produced by RNA viruses and have been implicated in modulating clinical infection outcomes; hence, there is increasing interest in the potential of DIPs as antiviral therapeutics. For influenza viruses, DIPs are formed by the packaging of genomic RNAs harboring internal deletions.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Dec 21, 2021
Source ID
10.1128/mbio.02959-21

Entities

People

  • Aartjan J W te Velthuis
  • Christopher B Brooke
  • Fadi G Alnaji
  • Joel Rivera-cardona
  • William K. Reiser

Organizations

  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Princeton University
  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
  • Wellcome Trust

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Biology

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Immunology
  • Virology (or Medical Virology).