The N terminus of Rift Valley fever virus nucleoprotein is essential for dimerization

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 11974-11980

  Le May, Nicolas ^a   Gauliard, Nicolas ^a   Billecocq, Agnès ^a   Bouloy, Michèle ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; TYROSINE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DIMERIZATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; SANDFLY FEVER NAPLES VIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; VERO CELLS;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; PHLEBOVIRUS; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 24644514773     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.18.11974-11980.2005     Document Type: Article

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