Yellow fever virus capsid protein is a potent suppressor of RNA silencing that binds double-stranded RNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 48, 2016, Pages 13863-13868

  Samuel, Glady Hazitha ^a   Wiley, Michael R ^b,c   Badawi, Atif ^b   Adelman, Zach N ^a   Myles, Kevin M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fralin Life Science Institute   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsid; Flavivirus; RNA interference; Yellow fever virus; Zika virus

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN C; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS; ZIKA VIRUS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MOSQUITO; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; YELLOW FEVER;

ANIMALS; CAPSID PROTEINS; CULICIDAE; DISEASE VECTORS; GENE SILENCING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; YELLOW FEVER; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 84999085109     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600544113     Document Type: Article

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