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. 2008 Jul 2;3(7):e2580. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002580

Figure 5. The inhibitory effect of NS5A expression is specific for HIV replication.

Figure 5

The infectious titer of mumps virus was not inhibited in Jurkat cells expressing full-length GBV-C NS5A (1–414) or the 152–181 NS5A peptide compared to the vector control (VC) or parent Jurkat cells (A). Mumps virus replication was increased in Jurkat cells expressing full-length NS5A (*; p = 0.029). Similarly, panel B demonstrates that VSV-G pseudotyped retroviruses transduced all NS5A and control cell lines with similar efficiency as measured by relative luciferase activity in VSV-G pseudotype particles relative to the no-envelope control particles (p>0.05 for all compared to VC). 152–167 = cells expressing this NS5A 16mer peptide, Scr = cells expressing scrambled 16mer peptide, and S-A, S-G, S-E = cells expressing the S158A, S158G, and S158E substitutions.