Improvement of the specific infectivity of the rubella virus (RUB) infectious clone: Determinants of cytopathogenicity induced by RUB map to the nonstructural proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 562-568

  Pugachev, Konstantin V ^a   Abernathy, Emily S ^a   Frey, Teryl K ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CLONE; CYTOTOXICITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOPRECIPITATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUBELLA VIRUS; VERO CELL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

EID: 0031060534     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.1.562-568.1997     Document Type: Article

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