id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-331414-i0oxm5mr Kautz, Tiffany F. A Low Fidelity Virus Shows Increased Recombination during the Removal of an Alphavirus Reporter Gene 2020-06-19 .txt text/plain 5064 241 45 To examine this, GFP was inserted into TC-83, a live-attenuated vaccine for the alphavirus Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, as well as a low-fidelity variant of TC-83, and passaged until fluorescence was no longer observed. To examine reporter gene stability, three independent replicates of TC-83 GFP and low-fidelity TC-83 GFP were passaged 10 times on Vero cells using an approximate MOI of 0.5 ( Figure 1A ). All three TC-83 GFP replicates contained deletion variants present at a low frequency that were able to selectively remove the GFP reporter gene by passage 10 (Figure 2A) . To better understand the mechanisms underlying the conserved removal of the low-fidelity TC-83 GFP gene, M-fold was used to determine the RNA secondary structure of the virus genome ( Figure 4C-E) . To characterize the role of RNA structure of the virus genome in RNA recombination site selection, we modeled the three most common deletions that occurred at high levels during low-fidelity TC-83 GFP passaging. ./cache/cord-331414-i0oxm5mr.txt ./txt/cord-331414-i0oxm5mr.txt