Recombinant subviral particles from tick-borne encephalitis virus are fusogenic and provide a model system for studying flavivirus envelope glycoprotein functions

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 4549-4557

  Schalich, Juliane ^a   Allison, Steven L ^a   Stiasny, Karin ^a   Mandl, Christian W ^a   Kunz, Christian ^a   Heinz, Franz X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CHOLINE; GLYCAN; URIDINE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FLAVIVIRUS; HEMAGGLUTINATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

EID: 0029888374     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.7.4549-4557.1996     Document Type: Article

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