A targeted approach to identification of vaccinia virus postreplicative transcription elongation factors: Genetic evidence for a role of the H5R gene in vaccinia transcription

Virology

Volumn 363, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 333-341

  Cresawn, Steven G ^a   Condit, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Genetics; Isatin thiosemicarbazone; Marker rescue; RNA polymerase; Transcription; Vaccinia virus

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR G 2; ISATIN 3 THIOSEMICARBAZONE; PROTEIN H5; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

A24R GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; G2R GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; H5R GENE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; ISATIN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 34248567670     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.02.016     Document Type: Article

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