Structural aspects of rabies virus replication

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 282-294

  Albertini, A A V ^a,b   Schoehn, G ^a   Weissenhorn, W ^a   Ruigrok, R W H ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

Author keywords

Influenza virus; Nucleocapsid; Nucleoprotein N; Phosphoprotein P; Rabies virus; VSV

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; RABIES; RABIES VIRUS; REVIEW; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMANS; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RABIES VIRUS; RHABDOVIRIDAE; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BORNA DISEASE VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RABIES VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 38549175260     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-7298-1     Document Type: Review

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