Matrix protein of rabies virus is responsible for the assembly and budding of bullet-shaped particles and interacts with the transmembrane spike glycoprotein G

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 242-250

  Mebatsion, Teshome ^a,b   Weiland, Frank ^a   Conzelmann, Karl Klaus ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATRIX PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RABIES VIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0032889562     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.1.242-250.1999     Document Type: Article

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