Effects of a point mutation in the 3′ end of the S genome segment of naturally occuring and engineered Bunyamwera viruses

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 789-793

  Kohl, Alain ^a   Bridgen, Anne ^a,c   Dunn, Ewan ^a,d   Barr, John N ^b   Elliott, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY TITER; BUNYAMWERA VIRUS; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; WILD TYPE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BUNYAMWERA VIRUS; CELL LINE; NUCLEOCAPSID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; BUNYAMWERA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0037385580     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18963-0     Document Type: Short Survey

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