Development of Sindbis viruses encoding nsP2/GFP chimeric proteins and their application for studying nsP2 functioning

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 5046-5057

  Atasheva, Svetlana ^a   Gorchakov, Rodion ^a   English, Robert ^b   Frolov, Ilya ^a   Frolova, Elena ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CHIMERA; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CYTOPLASM; DNA LIBRARY; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SINDBIS VIRUS; TISSUE CULTURE; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CRICETINAE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYTOPLASM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SINDBIS VIRUS; SOCIAL PLANNING; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUSES;

SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 34248359925     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02746-06     Document Type: Article

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