The efficient packaging of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus-specific RNAs into viral particles is determined by nsP1-3 synthesis

Virology

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 315-327

  Volkova, Eugenia ^a   Gorchakov, Rodion ^a   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Nonstructural proteins; Packaging; RNA replication; VEE

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PACKAGING; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPLICON; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TISSUE CULTURE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; RNA VIRUSES; SINDBIS VIRUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 30044437341     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.010     Document Type: Article

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