HSV-1 amplicon vectors have been used as platforms for the generation of genetic vaccines against both DNA and RNA viruses. Mice vaccinated with such vectors encoding structural proteins from both footand- mouth disease virus and rotavirus were partially protected from challenge with wild-type virus (D’Antuono et al. Vaccine 28: 7363–7372, 2010; Laimbacher et al. Mol Ther 20: 1810–1820, 2012), indicating that HSV-1 amplicon vectors are attractive tools for the development of complex and safe genetic vaccines. This chapter describes the use of HSV-1 amplicon vectors that encode individual or multiple viral structural proteins from a polycistronic transgene cassette in mammalian cells. More precisely, amplicon vectors that encode multiple structural viral proteins support the in situ production of viruslike particles (VLPs) in vector-infected cells. The expression of the viral genes is confi rmed by Western blot and immune fl uorescence analysis, and the generation of VLPs in vector-infected cells is demonstrated by electron microscopy.
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Laimbacher, A. S., & Fraefel, C. (2014). HSV-1 Amplicon vectors as genetic vaccines. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1144, 99–115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0428-0_7
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