Article
Role of biased hypermutation in evolution of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus from progenitor acute measles virus.
Journal of virology - 1 May 1991
Wong T C, Ayata M, Ueda S, Hirano A
Abstract excerpt
We identified an acute measles virus (Nagahata strain) closely related to a defective virus (Biken strain) isolated from a patient with subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). The proteins of Nagahata strain measles virus are antigenically and electrophoretically similar to the proteins of Edmonston strain measles virus. However, the nucleotide sequence of the Nagahata matrix (M) gene is significantly...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- Child, Preschool
- Cricetinae
- Genes, Viral
- Humans
- Measles
- Measles virus
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- RNA, Viral
