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Journal of Virology, March 2003, p. 3181-3190, Vol. 77, No. 5
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.5.3181-3190.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Efficient Replication of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1a RNAs in Cell Culture

Keril J. Blight,* Jane A. McKeating, Joseph Marcotrigiano, and Charles M. Rice*

Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021

Received 5 September 2002/ Accepted 5 December 2002

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 (subtypes 1a and 1b) is responsible for the majority of treatment-resistant liver disease worldwide. Thus far, efficient HCV RNA replication has been observed only for subgenomic and full-length RNAs derived from genotype 1b isolates. Here, we report the establishment of efficient RNA replication systems for genotype 1a strain H77. Replication of subgenomic and full-length H77 1a RNAs required the highly permissive Huh-7.5 hepatoma subline and adaptive amino acid substitutions in both NS3 and NS5A. Replication could be detected by RNA quantification, fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and metabolic labeling of HCV-specific proteins. Replication efficiencies were similar for subgenomic and full-length RNAs and were most efficient for HCV RNAs lacking heterologous RNA elements. Interestingly, both subtype 1a and 1b NS3 adaptive mutations are surface exposed and present on only one face of the NS3 structure. The cell culture-adapted subtype 1a replicons should be useful for basic replication studies and for antiviral development. These results are also encouraging for the development of adapted replicons for the remaining HCV genotypes.

* Corresponding author. Present address for Keril J. Blight: Department of Molecular Microbiology, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8230, St. Louis, MO 63110. Phone: (314) 286-0065. Fax: (314) 362-1232. E-mail: blight{at}borcim.wustl.edu. Mailing address for Charles M. Rice: Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease, Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave., New York, NY 10021. Phone: (212) 327-7046. Fax: (212) 327-7048. E-mail: ricec{at}rockefeller.edu.

Journal of Virology, March 2003, p. 3181-3190, Vol. 77, No. 5
0022-538X/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.5.3181-3190.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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