The Consequences of Reconfiguring the Ambisense S Genome Segment of Rift Valley Fever Virus on Viral Replication in Mammalian and Mosquito Cells and for Genome Packaging

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Brennan, Benjamin ^a,b   Welch, Stephen R ^a,b   Elliott, Richard M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW CENTRE FOR VIRUS RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PACKAGING; GENOME RECONFIGURATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER BUNYAVIRUS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CULICIDAE; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84895745384     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003922     Document Type: Article

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