Reovirus ςNS Protein Is Required for Nucleation of Viral Assembly Complexes and Formation of Viral Inclusions

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Progeny virions of mammalian reoviruses are assembled in the cytoplasm of infected cells at discrete sites termed viral inclusions. Studies of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant viruses indicate that nonstructural protein sigmaNS and core protein mu2 are required for synthesis of double-stranded (ds) RNA, a process that occurs at sites of viral assembly. We used confocal immunofluorescence microscopy and ts mutant...

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