Insights into the oligomerization state-helicase activity relationship of West Nile virus NS3 NTPase/helicase

Virus Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 166-174

  Feito, M José ^a   Gómez Gutiérrez, Julián ^a   Ayora, Sylvia ^b   Alonso, Juan Carlos ^b   Peterson, Darrell ^c   Gavilanes, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; DNA and RNA Helicase; Fluorescence spectroscopy; NS3NTPase helicase; WN virus

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HELICASE; MONOMER; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; POLYPROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA HELICASES; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 44349170491     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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