The Immediate-Early 63 Protein of Varicella-Zoster Virus: Analysis of Functional Domains Required for Replication In Vitro and for T-Cell and Skin Tropism in the SCIDhu Model In Vivo

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1181-1194

  Baiker, Armin ^a   Bagowski, Christoph ^a,c   Ito, Hideki ^a,d   Sommer, Marvin ^a   Zerboni, Leigh ^a   Fabel, Klaus ^a   Hay, John ^b   Ruyechan, William ^b   Arvin, Ann M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Arbor Vita Corporation   (United States)

^d JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPROTEIN E; IMMEDIATE EARLY 63 PROTEIN; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COSMID; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SKIN GRAFT; T LYMPHOCYTE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHICKENPOX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HELA CELLS; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, SCID; MUTATION; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0345742591     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.3.1181-1194.2004     Document Type: Article

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