Adaptive mutations in the H5N1 polymerase complex

Virus Research

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-62

  Gabriel, Gülsah ^a   Czudai Matwich, Volker ^b   Klenk, Hans Dieter ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive mutations; Host specificity; Influenzavirus polymerase; Pathogenicity; Transmissibility

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HOST FACTOR; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIRD; FERRET; GENE MUTATION; GUINEA PIG; HOST; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAVIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUSTELA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ADAPTIVE MUTATIONS; HOST SPECIFICITY; INFLUENZAVIRUS POLYMERASE; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSIBILITY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RNA REPLICASE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84887623342     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: 18727492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.05.010     Document Type: Article

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