Vaccinia virions deficient in transcription enzymes lack a nucleocapsid

Virology

Volumn 434, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-58

  McFadden, Baron D H ^a   Moussatche, Nissin ^a   Kelley, Karen ^b   Kang, Byung Ho ^b   Condit, Richard C ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nucleocapsid; Poxvirus; Vaccinia; Virion; Virus structure

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENZYME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VACCINIA; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMANS; NUCLEOCAPSID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 84868092099     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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