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Shawna Truong
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 3
Citations - 120
Shawna Truong is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virus & Insertional mutagenesis. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications receiving 107 citations.
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A quantitative high-resolution genetic profile rapidly identifies sequence determinants of hepatitis C viral fitness and drug sensitivity.
Hangfei Qi,C. Anders Olson,Nicholas C. Wu,Ruian Ke,Claude Loverdo,Virginia Chu,Shawna Truong,Roland Remenyi,Zugen Chen,Yushen Du,Sheng Yao Su,Laith Q. Al-Mawsawi,Ting-Ting Wu,Shu Hua Chen,Chung Yen Lin,Weidong Zhong,James O. Lloyd-Smith,Ren Sun +17 more
TL;DR: This high-resolution profiling methodology will be useful for next-generation drug development to select drugs with higher fitness costs to resistance, and also for informing the rational use of drugs based on viral variant spectra from patients.
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Systematic identification of anti-interferon function on hepatitis C virus genome reveals p7 as an immune evasion protein.
Hangfei Qi,Virginia Chu,Nicholas C. Wu,Zugen Chen,Shawna Truong,Gurpreet Brar,Sheng Yao Su,Sheng Yao Su,Yushen Du,Yushen Du,Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami,C. Anders Olson,Shu Hua Chen,Chung Yen Lin,Ting-Ting Wu,Ren Sun,Ren Sun +16 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a high-throughput profiling platform was developed to enable mapping of hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences critical for anti-IFN function at high resolution, and it was found that p7 is a critical immune evasion protein that suppresses the antiviral IFN function by counteracting the function of IFI6-16.
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A Comprehensive Functional Map of the Hepatitis C Virus Genome Provides a Resource for Probing Viral Proteins
Roland Remenyi,Hangfei Qi,Sheng Yao Su,Sheng Yao Su,Zugen Chen,Nicholas C. Wu,Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami,Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami,Shawna Truong,Virginia Chu,Tamar Stokelman,Hung-Hao Lo,C. Anders Olson,Ting-Ting Wu,Shu Hwa Chen,Chung Yen Lin,Ren Sun +16 more
TL;DR: A genome-wide HCV mutant library, a high-resolution functional map of the entire viral genome by combining transposon-based insertional mutagenesis with next-generation sequencing, and the utility of these genetic footprints in the identification of candidate regions for epitope tag insertion are shown.