Achieving a golden mean: Mechanisms by which coronaviruses ensure synthesis of the correct stoichiometric ratios of viral proteins

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4330-4340

  Plant, Ewan P ^a,c   Rakauskaite, Rasa ^b   Taylor, Deborah R ^a   Dinman, Jonathan D ^b  

^a Office of Biologics Research and Review   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; MURINE HEPATITIS CORONAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTANT;

ANIMALS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

CORONAVIRUS; MIRIDAE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 77950809174     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02480-09     Document Type: Article

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