Yellow fever virus NS2B-NS3 protease: Characterization of charged-to-alanine mutant and revertant viruses and analysis of polyprotein-cleavage activities

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1403-1413

  Chambers, Thomas J ^a   Droll, Deborah A ^a   Tang, Yujia ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Ganesh, Vannakambadi K ^b   Murthy, Krishna H M ^b   Nickells, Michael ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; POLYPROTEIN; PROTEINASE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERTANT; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS PLAQUE; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLAQUE ASSAY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA HELICASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 18144425100     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80427-0     Document Type: Article

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