Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus nsP2 protein regulates packaging of the viral genome into infectious virions

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4202-4213

  Kim, Dal Young ^a   Atasheva, Svetlana ^a   Frolova, Elena I ^a   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; PROTEINASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA PACKAGING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; MIRIDAE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84875782703     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03142-12     Document Type: Article

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