Chimeric Sindbis-Ross River viruses to study interactions between alphavirus nonstructural and structural regions

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 7900-7909

  Kuhn, Richard J ^a,b   Griffin, Diane E ^c   Owen, Katherine E ^b   Niesters, Hubert G M ^a,d   Strauss, James H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALPHA VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN BHK; CHICKEN; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SINDBIS VIRUS; VERO CELL; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029795276     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.11.7900-7909.1996     Document Type: Article

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