Reconstruct virus/phage?

[W. Hammerschmidt]

In article <hamel.819476001 at pollux>, hamel at cc.umanitoba.ca (Andre Hamel) wrote:

> Is anyone aware of any publication references regarding reconstruction of 
> viruses or phage from recombinant bits?
> 
> For example, transfecting cells with various parts of phage genome and 
> obtaining complete, viable phage (as result of recombinant in the host cell).
> 
> I did a Medline search but I suspect that the keywords that I had used 
> were not adequate.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> 
> 
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Andre,

      you might check 'Robertson, E., and E. Kieff. 1995. Reducing the
complexity of the transforming Epstein-Barr virus genome to 64 kilobase
pairs. J. Virol. 69:983-993' and previous papers by E. Kieff's group.
Similarly, pseudorabies virus can be reassembled by just transfecting
partially overlapping cosmid clones into cells.

Good luck searching,

Wolfgang

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