A stable full-length yellow fever virus cDNA clone and the role of conserved RNA elements in flavivirus replication

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1261-1268

  Bredenbeek, Peter J ^a   Kooi, Engbert A ^a,c   Lindenbach, Brett ^b,d   Huijkman, Nicolette ^a   Rice, Charles M ^b,d   Spaan, Willy J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PLASMID VECTOR; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS REPLICATION; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLAQUE ASSAY; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 0038325607     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.18860-0     Document Type: Article

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