Cloning, expression, and immunogenicity of the assembly protein of varicella-zoster virus and detection of the products of open reading frame 33

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 332-339

  Garcia Valcarcel, Mercedes ^a   Fowler, Wendy J ^a   Harper, David R ^b   Jeffries, Don J ^b   Layton, Guy T ^a  

^a British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly proteins; CMV; HSV

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INDUCTION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OPEN READING FRAMES; RABBITS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; HERPES; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031448090     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199712)53:4<332::AID-JMV4>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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