Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) smallest capsid protein identified as product of short open reading frame located between HCMV UL48 and UL49

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 5680-5683

  Gibson, Wade ^a   Clopper, Kendra S ^a   Britt, William J ^b   Baxter, Michael K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 7; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID;

EID: 0029955713     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.8.5680-5683.1996     Document Type: Article

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