The 131-amino-acid repeat region of the essential 39-kilodalton core protein of fowlpox virus FP9, equivalent to vaccinia virus A4L protein, is nonessential and highly immunogenic

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 170-179

  Boulanger, Denise ^a   Green, Philip ^a   Smith, Tim ^a   Czerny, Claus Peter ^b   Skinner, Michael A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Inst Med Microbiol Infect/Epidem   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; FOWLPOX VIRUS; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TANDEM REPEAT; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031984505     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.1.170-179.1998     Document Type: Article

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