Amino acid changes responsible for attenuation of virus neurovirulence in an infectious cDNA clone of the Oshima strain of Tick-borne encephalitis virus

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1007-1018

  Hayasaka, Daisuke ^a,b   Gritsun, Tamara S ^c   Yoshii, Kentarou ^a   Ueki, Tomotaka ^a   Goto, Akiko ^a   Mizutani, Tetsuya ^a   Kariwa, Hiroaki ^a   Iwasaki, Takuya ^b   Gould, Ernest A ^c   Takashima, Ikuo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SERINE; VALINE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; KIDNEY CELL CULTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRULENCE;

ACARI; CRICETINAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 11144355986     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.19668-0     Document Type: Review

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