Envelope and pre-membrane protein structural amino acid mutations mediate diminished avian growth and virulence of a Mexican West Nile virus isolate

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2810-2820

  Langevin, Stanley A ^a   Bowen, Richard A ^b   Ramey, Wanichaya N ^a   Sanders, Todd A ^c,f   Maharaj, Payal D ^a   Fang, Ying ^a   Cornelius, Jennine ^a   Barker, Christopher M ^a   Reisen, William K ^a   Beasley, David W C ^d   Barrett, Alan D T ^d   Kinney, Richard M ^e   Huang, Claire Y H ^e   Brault, Aaron C ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^f USFWS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; FINCH; GENE MUTATION; MACROPHAGE; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPARROW; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CROWS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FINCHES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEXICO; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPARROWS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIRAL LOAD; VIRULENCE; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 81255195609     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.035535-0     Document Type: Article

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