How Ebola virus infects cells

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 2645-2646

  Kawaoka, Yoshihiro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN 160; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 160; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; HYBRID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; CATHEPSIN; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSIN L; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; ENVELOPE GLYCOPROTEIN, EBOLA VIRUS;

ANGOLA; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; DRUG ANTAGONISM; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CATHEPSIN B; CATHEPSINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; EBOLAVIRUS; HUMANS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 20544448655     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr051754     Document Type: Article

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