Codon optimization of the major antigen encoding genes of diverse strains of influenza a virus

Interdisciplinary Sciences – Computational Life Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-42

  Mani, Indra ^a,b   Singh, Vijai ^c   Chaudhary, Dharmendra Kumar ^b   Somvanshi, Pallavi ^d   Negi, M P S ^e  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF FISH GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d Bioinformatics Centre   (India)

^e CENTRAL DRUG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

CAI; codon optimization; influenza A virus; vaccines

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZAVIRUS A; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

HEMAGGLUTININ, HUMAN INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINE; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; SIALIDASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PROTEIN FOLDING; VIRUS GENE;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, VIRAL; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; NEURAMINIDASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84858773979     PISSN: 19132751     EISSN: 18671462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12539-011-0055-z     Document Type: Article

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