Replication of a recombinant hepatitis E virus genome tagged with reporter genes and generation of a short-term cell line producing viral RNA and proteins

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1189-1200

  Thakral, Deepshi ^a   Nayak, Baibaswata ^a,b   Rehman, Shagufta ^a   Durgapal, Hemlata ^a   Panda, Subrat Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC G 418; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA HELICASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRUS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, VIRAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPLICON; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; RENILLA; RENILLA LUCIFERASE;

EID: 16844379424     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80705-0     Document Type: Article

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