Chemokine homolog of Molluscum contagiosum virus: Sequence conservation and expression

Virology

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-59

  Bugert, Joachim J ^a,b   Lohmüller, Claudia ^a   Damon, Inger ^b   Moss, Bernard ^b   Darai, Gholamreza ^a  

^a Inst fur Med Virologie der R   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemokine homolog; DNA nucleotide sequencing; In vitro RNA synthesis; Molluscum contagiosum virus; RT PCR; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME;

ARBOVIRUS; DNA VIRUSES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MOLLUSCIPOXVIRUS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM VIRUS; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 0032030186     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.9001     Document Type: Article

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