Human MxA protein confers resistance to semliki forest virus and inhibits the amplification of a semliki forest virus-based replicon in the absence of viral structural proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1516-1522

  Landis, Heinrich ^a   Simon Jödicke, Angela ^a   Klöti, Andreas ^a   Di Paolo, Claudio ^a   Schnorr, Jens Jörg ^b   Schneider Schaulies, Sibylle ^b   Hefti, Hans Peter ^a   Pavlovic, Jovan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; INTERFERON; MYXOVIRUS RESISTANCE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2 INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2A INTERFERON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

EID: 2642674428     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.72.2.1516-1522.1998     Document Type: Article

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