A hypervariable region within the 3′ cis-acting element of the murine coronavirus genome is nonessential for RNA synthesis but affects pathogenesis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1274-1287

  Goebel, Scott J ^a   Miller, Timothy B ^a   Bennett, Corey J ^a   Bernard, Kristen A ^a,b   Masters, Paul S ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 33846503830     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00803-06     Document Type: Article

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