Adaptation of Puumala hantavirus to cell culture is associated with point mutations in the coding region of the L segment and in the noncoding regions of the S segment

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 8793-8800

  Nemirov, Kirill ^a   Lundkvist, Åke ^b,c   Vaheri, Antti ^a   Plyusnin, Alexander ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLALANINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PUUMALA VIRUS; VERO CELL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA PRIMERS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; PUUMALA VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; VERO CELLS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0042208249     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.16.8793-8800.2003     Document Type: Article

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