High-resolution functional mapping of the venezuelan equine encephalitis virus genome by insertional mutagenesis and massively parallel sequencing

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Beitzel, Brett F ^a   Bakken, Russell R ^a   Smith, Jeffrey M ^a   Schmaljohn, Connie S ^a  

^a UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN E1; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; VIRUS CAPSID ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CERCOPITHECUS; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERO CELL; VIRULENCE;

MIRIDAE; MUS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GENOME, VIRAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VERO CELLS; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 78449246344     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001146     Document Type: Article

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