Profiling of viral proteins expressed from the genomic RNA of Japanese encephalitis virus using a panel of 15 region-specific polyclonal rabbit antisera: Implications for viral gene expression

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Kim, Jin Kyoung ^a   Kim, Jeong Min ^b   Song, Byung Hak ^a   Yun, Sang Im ^a   Yun, Gil Nam ^b   Byun, Sung June ^c   Lee, Young Min ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c National Institute of Animal Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; M PROTEIN; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 2; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 3; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5; OLIGOPEPTIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTISERUM; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; ANTIBODY; ANTISERUM; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BHK CELL LINE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RABBIT; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM;

DENGUE VIRUS GROUP; FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; CELL LINE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RABBITS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84928715944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124318     Document Type: Article

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