Bovine viral diarrhea virus NS3 serine proteinase: Polyprotein cleavage sites, cofactor requirements, and molecular model of an enzyme essential for pestivirus replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 5312-5322

  Xu, Jian ^a   Mendez, Ernesto ^a,d   Caron, Paul R ^b   Lin, Chao ^a,b   Murcko, Mark A ^b   Collett, Marc S ^c   Rice, Charles M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

^c ViroPharma   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BOVINE DIARRHEA VIRUS; DNA CLEAVAGE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; NONHUMAN; PESTIVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA BINDING; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031010133     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.7.5312-5322.1997     Document Type: Article

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