Insertion of enhanced green fluorescent protein in a hinge region of vesicular stomatitis virus L polymerase protein creates a temperature-sensitive virus that displays no virion-associated polymerase activity in vitro

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 12241-12252

  Ruedas, John B ^a   Perrault, Jacques ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; METHYLATION; MONONEGAVIRALES; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RHABDOVIRUS; RNA CAPPING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA REPLICASE; TEMPERATURE; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; MONONEGAVIRALES; MORBILLIVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; RHABDOVIRIDAE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 70450181580     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01273-09     Document Type: Article

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