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INRA, Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires

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Biochemistry

A Fluorogenic Peptide Cleavage Assay to Screen for Proteolytic Activity: Applications for coronavirus spike protein activation
Javier A. Jaimes *1,2, Jean K. Millet *1,3, Monty E. Goldstein 1,4, Gary R. Whittaker 1, Marco R. Straus 1
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, 2Department of Microbiology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell University, 3Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, Domaine de Vilvert, INRA, 4Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland

We present a fluorogenic peptide cleavage assay that allows a rapid screening of the proteolytic activity of proteases on peptides representing the cleavage site of viral fusion peptides. This method can also be used on any other amino acid motif within a protein sequence to test for the protease activity.

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Immunology and Infection

Production of Pseudotyped Particles to Study Highly Pathogenic Coronaviruses in a Biosafety Level 2 Setting
Jean K. Millet 1,2, Tiffany Tang 3, Lakshmi Nathan 3, Javier A. Jaimes 4, Hung-Lun Hsu 3,5, Susan Daniel 3, Gary R. Whittaker 1
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, 2INRA, Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, 3Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, 4Department of Microbiology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Cornell University, 5Horae Gene Therapy Center, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Here, we present a protocol to generate pseudotyped particles in a BSL-2 setting incorporating the spike protein of the highly pathogenic viruses Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses. These pseudotyped particles contain a luciferase reporter gene allowing quantification of virus entry into target host cells.

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