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Journal of Virology, July 2001, p. 6223-6227, Vol. 75, No. 13
Department of Molecular Biology, University
of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3944
Received 27 December 2000/Accepted 9 April 2001
This report describes novel baculovirus vectors designed to express
mammalian
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.13.6223-6227.2001
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Novel Baculovirus Expression Vectors That Provide
Sialylation of Recombinant Glycoproteins in Lepidopteran Insect
Cells
1,4-galactosyltransferase and
2,6-sialyltransferase genes at early times after infection. Sf9 cells infected with these
viral vectors, unlike cells infected with a wild-type baculovirus, produced a sialylated viral glycoprotein during the late phase of
infection. Thus, the two mammalian glycosyltransferases encoded by
these viral vectors are necessary and sufficient for sialylation of a
foreign glycoprotein in insect cells under the conditions used in this
study. While some of the new baculovirus vectors described in this
study produced less, one produced wild-type levels of infectious budded
virus progeny.
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Molecular Biology, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3944, Laramie, WY 82071-3944. Phone: (307) 766-4282. Fax: (307) 766-5098. E-mail: DLJarvis{at}uwyo.edu.
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