A virus-producing cell sustaining the ability to produce viruses at high titer
is successfully constructed by expressing the virus structural gene under the regulation
of EF1 promoter. In this virus-producing cell, the virus structural gene
is ligated to a selection marker gene via IRES and domains other than the protein
coding domain are eliminated from the DNA encoding virus structural proteins. Thus,
reduction of the titer due to cell passages can be prevented and emergence of wild
type viruses caused by unfavorable recombination of the virus genome can be inhibited.