Adaptation of Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus lacking 51-nt conserved sequence element to replication in mammalian and mosquito cells

Virology

Volumn 362, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 475-487

  Michel, Gilles ^a   Petrakova, Olga ^a   Atasheva, Svetlana ^a   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

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

Author keywords

51 nt CSE; RNA replication; Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MAMMAL CELL; MOSQUITO; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; CULICIDAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; HUMANS; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

MAMMALIA; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 34247602505     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.01.009     Document Type: Article

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