Fusion of a fluorescent protein to the pUL25 minor capsid protein of pseudorabies virus allows live-cell capsid imaging with negligible impact on infection

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-129

  Bohannon, Kevin P ^a   Sollars, Patricia J ^b   Pickard, Gary E ^b   Smith, Gregory A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PUL17 PROTEIN; PUL18 PROTEIN; PUL25 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HERPES ZOSTER; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELL LINE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PSEUDORABIES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 83755195701     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.036145-0     Document Type: Article

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