Expression and self-assembly of empty virus-like particles of hepatitis E virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 7207-7213

  Tian Cheng, L I ^a   Yamakawa, Yoshio ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Tatsumi, Masashi ^a   Razak, Mohammed A Azeez ^a,c   Uchida, Toshikazu ^b   Takeda, Naokazu ^a   Miyamura, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Medical Research Institute Colombo   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEPATITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

EID: 1842298735     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.7207-7213.1997     Document Type: Article

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