Hypervariable domain of nonstructural protein nsp3 of venezuelan equine encephalitis virus determines cell-specific mode of virus replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7569-7584

  Foy, Niall J ^a   Akhrymuk, Maryna ^a   Shustov, Alexander V ^a   Frolova, Elena I ^a   Frolov, Ilya ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3;

ALPHA VIRUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CAPPING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CRICETINAE; CULICIDAE; ELECTROPORATION; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84880388487     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00720-13     Document Type: Article

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