The avian-origin PB1 gene segment facilitated replication and transmissibility of the H3N2/1968 pandemic influenza virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4170-4179

  Wendel, Isabel ^a   Rubbenstroth, Dennis ^b   Doedt, Jennifer ^a,d   Kochs, Georg ^b   Wilhelm, Jochen ^c   Staeheli, Peter ^b   Klenk, Hans Dieter ^a   Matrosovich, Mikhail ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Sividon Diagnostics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; INFLUENZA VIRUS POLYMERASE BASIC PROTEIN 1; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC REASSORTMENT; GUINEA PIG; HONG KONG INFLUENZA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H2N2; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H3N2; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PB1 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HISTORY; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H3N2); INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MDCK CELL LINE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSES;

AVES; CAVIA; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOGS; GUINEA PIGS; HEK293 CELLS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MADIN DARBY CANINE KIDNEY CELLS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84925400660     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03194-14     Document Type: Article

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