A combination of naturally occurring mutations in North American West Nile virus nonstructural protein genes and in the 3′ untranslated region alters virus phenotype

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 6111-6116

  Davis, C Todd ^a,c   Galbraith, Sareen E ^a   Zhang, Shuliu ^a   Whiteman, Melissa C ^a   Li, Li ^a   Kinney, Richard M ^c   Barrett, Alan D T ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4B; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A; STAT1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VERO CELL; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; VERO CELLS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 34249814039     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02387-06     Document Type: Article

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