Programmed Ribosomal Frameshift Alters Expression of West Nile Virus Genes and Facilitates Virus Replication in Birds and Mosquitoes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Melian, Ezequiel Balmori ^a   Hall Mendelin, Sonja ^b   Du, Fangyao ^a   Owens, Nick ^a   Bosco Lauth, Angela M ^c,d   Nagasaki, Tomoko ^a   Rudd, Stephen ^a   Brault, Aaron C ^c   Bowen, Richard A ^d   Hall, Roy A ^a   van den Hurk, Andrew F ^b   Khromykh, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; PLASMID DNA; RNA 28S; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; ELECTROPORATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMORTALIZED CELL LINE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ION TORRENT SEQUENCING ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REPLICON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA REPLICATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIREMIA; VIRION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BIRD; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; HAMSTER; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MOSQUITO; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VERO CELL LINE; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

AVES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CRICETINAE; CULICIDAE; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEW YORK; VERO CELLS; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84912077250     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004447     Document Type: Article

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