Engineering the Japanese encephalitis virus RNA genome for the expression of foreign genes of various sizes: Implications for packaging capacity and RNA replication efficiency

Journal of NeuroVirology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 522-535

  Yun, Sang Im ^a   Choi, Yu Jeong ^a   Yu, Xiao Fang ^b   Song, Jae Young ^c   Shin, Young Hak ^d   Ju, Young Ran ^d   Kim, Seok Yong ^a   Lee, Young Min ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Korea   (South Korea)

^d Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Encapsidation; Foreign gene expression; Japanese encephalitis virus; Packaging cell lines; Trans complementation; Viral replicon particles

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DNA PACKAGING; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME SIZE; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPLICON; RNA REPLICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

CELL LINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, VIRAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPLICON; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 37549020291     PISSN: 13550284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13550280701684651     Document Type: Article

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