Dephosphorylation of West Nile virus capsid protein enhances the processes of nucleocapsid assembly

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 76-84

  Cheong, Yuen Kuen ^a   Ng, Mah Lee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assembly; Modulation; Nucleocapsid; Phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BINDING; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; NUCLEOCAPSID; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RNA, VIRAL; WEST NILE VIRUS;

MIRIDAE; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 78650613867     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2010.10.014     Document Type: Article

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