NS1′ of flaviviruses in the Japanese encephalitis virus serogroup is a product of ribosomal frameshifting and plays a role in viral neuroinvasiveness

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1641-1647

  Melian, Ezequiel Balmori ^a   Hinzman, Edward ^a,f   Nagasaki, Tomoko ^a   Firth, Andrew E ^b   Wills, Norma M ^c   Nouwens, Amanda S ^a   Blitvich, Bradley J ^d   Leung, Jason ^a,e   Funk, Anneke ^a   Atkins, John F ^b,c   Hall, Roy ^a   Khromykh, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Biota Holdings Ltd   (Australia)

^f ASV Wines Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NS1 PROTEIN, FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 73949143696     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01979-09     Document Type: Note

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