In vitro assembly of alphavirus cores by using nucleocapsid protein expressed in Escherichia coli

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 5309-5319

  Tellinghuisen, Timothy L ^a   Hamburger, Agnes E ^a,b   Fisher, Bonnie R ^a,c   Ostendorp, Ralf ^a,d   Kuhn, Richard J ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MORPHOSYS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REACTION ANALYSIS; ROSS RIVER ALPHA VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TECHNIQUE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033028591     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.7.5309-5319.1999     Document Type: Article

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