The amino-terminal domain of alphavirus capsid protein is dispensable for viral particle assembly but regulates RNA encapsidation through cooperative functions of its subdomains

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 12003-12019

  Lulla, Valeria ^a   Kim, Dal Young ^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; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS ALPHAVIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PARTICLE; VIRUS RELEASE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TITRATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHAVIRUS; MIRIDAE; VENEZUELAN EQUINE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CAPSID PROTEINS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, VENEZUELAN EQUINE; GENOME, VIRAL; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOCAPSID; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84886311910     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01960-13     Document Type: Article

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