Vaccinia virus uracil DNA glycosylase has an essential role in DNA synthesis that is independent of its glycosylase activity: Catalytic site mutations reduce virulence but not virus replication in cultured cells

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 159-166

  De Silva, Frank S ^a   Moss, Bernard ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URACIL DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CATALYSIS; CELL CULTURE; DELETION MUTANT; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POXVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL LINE; DNA GLYCOSYLASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; URACIL-DNA GLYCOSIDASE; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0037213268     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.1.159-166.2003     Document Type: Article

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