Structure of the recombinant alphavirus western equine encephalitis virus revealed by cryoelectron microscopy

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 9775-9782

  Sherman, Michael B ^a,b   Weaver, Scott C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALPHA VIRUS; ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS;

ALPHAVIRUS; EQUIDAE; RNA VIRUSES; SINDBIS VIRUS; TOGAVIRIDAE; VERTEBRATA; WESTERN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALS; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, WESTERN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, WESTERN EQUINE; GENOME, VIRAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SINDBIS VIRUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 77956829733     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00876-10     Document Type: Article

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