A structural and functional perspective of alphavirus replication and assembly

Future Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 837-856

  Jose, Joyce ^a   Snyder, Jonathan E ^a   Kuhn, Richard ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Replicon; RNA synthesis; RNA virus; Togavirus; Virion assembly

Indexed keywords

6K PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN E1; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA VIRUS; BINDING SITE; CELL BUDDING; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA REPLICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS ENTRY; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ALPHAVIRUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS INTERNALIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; ARBOVIRUS; ARTHROPODA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; ROSS RIVER VIRUS; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; TOGAVIRIDAE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349199877     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.09.59     Document Type: Review

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