Influenza C virus CM2 protein is produced from a 374-amino-acid protein (P42) by signal peptidase cleavage

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-50

  Hongo, Seiji ^a   Sugawara, Kanetsu ^a   Muraki, Yasushi ^a   Matsuzaki, Yoko ^a   Takashita, Emi ^a   Kitame, Fumio ^a   Nakamura, Kiyoto ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MATRIX PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS C; MICROSOME MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0032889270     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.1.46-50.1999     Document Type: Article

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