Characterisation of divergent flavivirus NS3 and NS5 protein sequences detected in Rhipicephalus microplus ticks from Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-50

  Maruyama, Sandra Regina ^a   Castro Jorge, Luiza Antunes ^a   Ribeiro, José Marcos Chaves ^b   Gardinassi, Luiz Gustavo ^a   Garcia, Gustavo Rocha ^a   Brandão, Lucinda Giampietro ^a,c   Rodrigues, Aline Rezende ^d,e   Okada, Marcos Ituo ^c,f   Abrão, Emiliana Pereira ^a   Ferreira, Beatriz Rossetti ^a   da Fonseca, Benedito Antonio Lopes ^a   de Miranda Santos, Isabel Kinney Ferreira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Vallée SA ^*

^d Vallée Laboratories   (Brazil)

^e Laticínios Vale dos Buritis   (Brazil)

^f Vetmais Medicina Animal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Flavivirus; NS3; NS5; Rhipicephalus microplus; Tick

Indexed keywords

NS3 PROTEIN, FLAVIVIRUS; NS5 PROTEIN, FLAVIVIRUS; RNA HELICASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; TISSUE EXTRACT; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; BOVINAE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE LIBRARY; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA HELICASES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TISSUE EXTRACTS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84893690389     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: 16788060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130166     Document Type: Article

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