Measles virus minigenomes encoding two autofluorescent proteins reveal cell-to-cell variation in reporter expression dependent on viral sequences between the transcription units

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2710-2718

  Rennick, Linda J ^a   Duprex, W Paul ^a   Rima, Bert K ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERO CELL;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA, VIRAL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME, VIRAL; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MEASLES VIRUS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERO CELLS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

MEASLES VIRUS; MORBILLIVIRUS;

EID: 35048818442     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83106-0     Document Type: Article

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