Amino acid changes within the Bunyamwera virus nucleocapsid protein differentially affect the mRNA transcription and RNA replication activities of assembled ribonucleoprotein templates

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 80-84

  Walter, Cheryl T ^a   Costa Bento, Diana F ^a   Alonso, Ana Guerrero ^a   Barr, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BUNYAMWERA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BUNYAMWERA VIRUS; HUMANS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BUNYAMWERA VIRUS;

EID: 78651243440     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.024240-0     Document Type: Article

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