Mutational analysis of the hypervariable region of hepatitis e virus reveals its involvement in the efficiency of viral RNA replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 85, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 10031-10040

  Pudupakam, R S ^a   Kenney, Scott P ^a   Córdoba, Laura ^a   Huang, Yao Wei ^a   Dryman, Barbara A ^a   LeRoith, Tanya ^a   Pierson, F William ^a   Meng, Xiang Jin ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRAIN HUH7; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERVARIABLE REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RNA REPLICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

EID: 80053941578     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00763-11     Document Type: Article

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