Evidence for ribosomal frameshifting and a novel overlapping gene in the genomes of insect-specific flaviviruses

Virology

Volumn 399, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-166

  Firth, Andrew E ^a   Blitvich, Bradley J ^b   Wills, Norma M ^c   Miller, Cathy L ^b   Atkins, John F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Insect specific flavivirus; NS2A; Overlapping gene; Ribosomal frameshifting; Sequence analysis; Translation

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; POTEIN FIFO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CODON; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CULEX; FLAVIVIRUS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENOME, VIRAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; HEXAPODA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; KAMITI RIVER VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77049090444     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.12.033     Document Type: Article

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