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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based methods are a fast and sensitive approach to detect and monitor viral load in Cytomegalovirus (CMV) patients. Letermovir (LMV) acts at a late stage during the CMV replication cycle and does not inhibit CMV DNA replication per se. Therefore, quantitative nucleic acid amplification testing might lead to the overestimation of viral load in patients treated with LMV and underestimate treatment success. To study this discrepancy, we treated infected cells with LMV or Ganciclovir (GCV) and compared viral progeny DNA levels. Prior to nucleic acid extraction and qPCR measurements we pretreated cell lysates and cell culture supernatants from infected cells with DNase I. This step assumes the degradation of DNA which is not protected from a viral capsid. LMV treatment did not reduce genomic copies (GC) in samples from whole cell lysates compared to samples treated with GCV. DNase treatment prior to DNA extraction, decreased GC in the LMV treated group to comparable levels as seen in the GCV group. In cell culture supernatants, LMV or GCV treatment led to an equivalent reduction of CMV GC. In this case, DNase treatment exerted a negligible effect on both

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Author

Stefan Weinberger; Christoph Steininger

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)