The missing link between envelope formation and fusion in alphaviruses

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 408-410

  Garoff, Henrik ^a   Cheng, R Holland ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CELL FUSION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE STABILIZATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

ALPHAVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS;

EID: 0035449085     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(01)02162-X     Document Type: Review

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