Virulence determinants of avian H5N1 influenza A virus in mammalian and avian hosts: Role of the C-terminal ESEV motif in the viral NS1 protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 10708-10718

  Zielecki, Florian ^a,d   Semmler, Ilia ^a   Kalthoff, Donata ^b   Voss, Daniel ^a   Mauel, Susanne ^c   Gruber, Achim D ^c   Beer, Martin ^b   Wolff, Thorsten ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PDZ DOMAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS ACTIVATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; DUCKS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INTERFERON-BETA; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

AVES; AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; GALLUS GALLUS; HUMAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 77957201252     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00610-10     Document Type: Article

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