Coronavirus reverse genetics by targeted RNA recombination

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 287, Issue , 2005, Pages 133-159

  Masters, P S ^a   Rottier, P J M ^b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS; VACCINE PRODUCTION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

AVES; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; MURINAE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; TRANSMISSIBLE GASTROENTERITIS VIRUS;

EID: 5644298752     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26765-4_5     Document Type: Review

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