Synthetic poliovirus and other designer viruses: What have we learned from them?

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2011, Pages 583-609

  Wimmer, Eckard ^a   Paul, Aniko V ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical synthesis of genomes; Codon pair deoptimization; Synthetic vaccines; Synthetic viruses

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; NONHUMAN; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; POLIOVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; POLIOVIRUS;

EID: 80053279504     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-090110-102957     Document Type: Article

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