Murid herpesvirus 4 strain 68 M2 protein is a B-cell-associated antigen important for latency but not lymphocytosis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 9700-9709

  Macrae, Alastair I ^b   Usherwood, Edward J ^c   Husain, S Mazher ^d   Flaño, Emilio ^f   Kim, In Jeong ^f   Woodland, David L ^f   Nash, Anthony A ^b   Blackman, Marcia A ^f   Sample, Jeffery T ^d,e   Stewart, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN M2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MEMBRANE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; HERPES VIRUS; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; MONONUCLEOSIS; MURID HERPESVIRUS 4; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; VIRUS LATENCY; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHADINOVIRUS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR VIRUS INFECTIONS; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0042890323     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.17.9700-9709.2003     Document Type: Article

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