Fusion protein is the main determinant of metapneumovirus host tropism

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1408-1416

  de Graaf, Miranda ^a   Schrauwen, Eefje J A ^a   Herfst, Sander ^a   van Amerongen, Geert ^a   Osterhaus, Albert D M E ^a   Fouchier, Ron A M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS FUSION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVIAN PNEUMOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURKEY (BIRD); VERO CELL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS ATTACHMENT;

AVES; AVIAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MAMMALIA; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PHASIANIDAE; SUBGROUP C;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; HUMANS; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; QUAIL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA REPLICASE; TURKEYS; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; VIRUS ATTACHMENT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 67649220996     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.009688-0     Document Type: Article

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