Design of chimeric alphaviruses with a programmed, attenuated, cell type-restricted phenotype

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4363-4376

  Kim, Dal Young ^a   Atasheva, Svetlana ^a   Foy, Niall J ^a   Wang, Eryu ^b   Frolova, Elena I ^a   Weaver, Scott ^b   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (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; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL STRAIN BHK; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA VIRUS; VERO CELL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CULICIDAE; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SERIAL PASSAGE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRAL VACCINES; VIRULENCE FACTORS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; TOGAVIRIDAE;

EID: 79955412521     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00065-11     Document Type: Article

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