Tick-Borne encephalitis virus delays interferon induction and hides its double-stranded RNA in intracellular membrane vesicles

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 8470-8483

  Överby, Anna K ^a   Popov, Vsevolod L ^b   Niedrig, Matthias ^c   Weber, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2A; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2B; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4A; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERFERON INDUCTION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA VIRUS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS STRAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; GENETICS; HAMSTER; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERO CELL; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EUKARYOTA; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; IPS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRICETINAE; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERFERON-BETA; MICE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VERO CELLS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 77956622041     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00176-10     Document Type: Article

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