Functional and genetic studies of the substrate specificity of coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus 3C-like proteinase

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 7325-7336

  Fang, Shouguo ^a   Shen, Hongyuan ^a   Wang, Jibin ^b   Tay, Felicia P L ^a   Liu, Ding Xiang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3C LIKE PROTEINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 10; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 12; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 13; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 14; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 15; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 16; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 6; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 7; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 8; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 9; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 77953784977     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02490-09     Document Type: Article

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