Exceptional flexibility in the sequence requirements for coronavirus small envelope protein function

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2249-2262

  Kuo, Lili ^a   Hurst, Kelley R ^a   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

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CORONAVIRUS; GENE DELETION; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS LIKE AGENT; VIRUS MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; CELL LINE; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, VIRAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CORONAVIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS;

EID: 33847188486     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01577-06     Document Type: Article

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