Cell culture adaptation of hepatitis C virus and in vivo viability of an adapted variant

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 13168-13179

  Kaul, Artur ^a   Woerz, Ilka ^a   Meuleman, Philip ^b   Leroux Roels, Geert ^b   Bartenschlager, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5A;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SCID MOUSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS TITRATION; WILD TYPE; XENOGRAFT;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; MICE; MICE, SCID; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MUTATION, MISSENSE; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS CULTIVATION;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MUS;

EID: 36348950345     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01362-07     Document Type: Article

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