Asparagine 631 variants of the chicken Mx protein do not inhibit influenza virus replication in primary chicken embryo fibroblasts or in vitro surrogate assays

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 7533-7539

  Benfield, Camilla T O ^a   Lyall, Jon W ^a   Kochs, Georg ^b   Tiley, Laurence S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; MYXOVIRUS RESISTANCE PROTEIN; MYXOVIRUS RESISTANCE PROTEIN A;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOWL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REPLICON; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS RESISTANCE; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 47749108361     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00185-08     Document Type: Article

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