The internal open reading frame within the nucleocapsid gene of mouse hepatitis virus encodes a structural protein that is not essential for viral replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 996-1003

  Fischer, Françoise ^a   Peng, Ding ^a,d   Hingley, Susan T ^c,e   Weiss, Susan R ^c   Masters, Paul S ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031026431     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.2.996-1003.1997     Document Type: Article

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