Similarity in genome organization between Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) and vaccinia virus (VV): Identification of MCV homologues of the VV genes for protein kinase 2, structural protein VP8, RNA polymerase 35 kDa subunit and β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3113-3120

  Douglass, Nicola J ^a,b   Blake, Neil W ^a,d   Cream, Jeffrey J ^c   Soteriou, Bambos A ^a   Zhang, Hong Yi ^a   Theodoridou, Agapi ^a   Archard, Leonard C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEIN KINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0030470947     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-77-12-3113     Document Type: Article

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