Interplay of acute and persistent infections caused by Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus encoding mutated capsid protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 10004-10015

  Atasheva, Svetlana ^a   Krendelchtchikova, Valentina ^a   Liopo, Anton ^a   Frolova, Elena ^a   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; BETA INTERFERON; CAPSID PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUTANT PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; INTERFERON; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRAIN BHK; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMPORT; NUCLEAR PORE; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS REPLICATION; 3T3 CELL LINE; ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENETICS; HAMSTER; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINDBIS VIRUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALIA; MIRIDAE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GENES, VIRAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 77956805024     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01151-10     Document Type: Article

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