Mutagenesis of the signal sequence of yellow fever virus prM protein: Enhancement of signalase cleavage in vitro is lethal for virus production

Journal of Virology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 24-32

  Lee, Eva ^a   Stocks, Christine E ^a   Amberg, Sean M ^b   Rice, Charles M ^b   Lobigs, Mario ^a  

^a Australian National University   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 0033986872     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.1.24-32.2000     Document Type: Article

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