UL54-null pseudorabies virus is attenuated in mice but productively infects cells in culture

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 769-784

  Schwartz, Jennifer A ^a   Brittle, Elizabeth E ^b   Reynolds, Ashley E ^b   Enquist, Lynn W ^b   Silverstein, Saul J ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPROTEIN; RNA; UL54 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UL52 GENE; UL53 GENE; UL54 GENE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ATTENUATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PLAQUE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOPROTEINS; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSEUDORABIES; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3; SUID HERPESVIRUS 1;

EID: 30344474932     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.2.769-784.2006     Document Type: Article

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