Construction and mutagenesis of an artificial bicistronic tick-borne encephalitis virus genome reveals an essential function of the second transmembrane region of protein E in flavivirus assembly

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 12197-12208

  Orlinger, Klaus K ^a   Hoenninger, Verena M ^a   Kofler, Regina M ^a   Mandl, Christian W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPROTEIN; PROTEIN E; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE DELETION; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSLATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENOME, VIRAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

FLAVIVIRUS; MIRIDAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 33845439886     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01540-06     Document Type: Article

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