Nuclear localization sequences in cytomegalovirus capsid assembly proteins (UL80 proteins) are required for virus production: Inactivating NLS1, NLS2, or both affects replication to strikingly different extents

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5381-5389

  Nguyen, Nang L ^a   Loveland, Amy N ^a   Gibson, Wade ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN PRECURSOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BETAHERPESVIRINAE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOSOL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUTATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; EUKARYOTA; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 5; MIRIDAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 43949097898     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02697-07     Document Type: Article

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