In vitro-assembled alphavirus core-like particles maintain a structure similar to that of nucleocapsid cores in mature virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 76, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 11128-11132

  Mukhopadhyay, Suchetana ^a   Chipman, Paul R ^a   Hong, Eunmee M ^a   Kuhn, Richard J ^a   Rossmann, Michael G ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN;

ALPHA VIRUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRION; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS PURIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CAPSID; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, WESTERN EQUINE; HORSES; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; ROSS RIVER VIRUS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0036838225     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.21.11128-11132.2002     Document Type: Article

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