Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus prevents amoebal encystment-mediating serine proteinase expression and circumvents cell encystment

Journal of Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2962-2965

  Boratto, Paulo ^a   Albarnaz, Jonas Dutra ^a   Almeida, Gabriel Magno de Freitas ^a   Botelho, Lucas ^a   Fontes, Alide Caroline Lima ^a   Costa, Adriana Oliveira ^a   Santos, Daniel de Assis ^a   Bonjardim, Cláudio Antônio ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^b   Kroon, Erna Geessien ^a   Abrahão, Jônatas Santos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS INFECTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DISEASE MODEL; DNA VIRUS INFECTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MIMIVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TROPHOZOITE; VIRUS RESISTANCE; ACANTHAMOEBA; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MIMIVIRIDAE; PROTOZOAN SPORE; VIROLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA MIMIVIRUS; PROTOZOA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MIMIVIRIDAE; SERINE PROTEASES; SPORES, PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84923044656     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03177-14     Document Type: Article

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