Functional and nonfunctional measles virus matrix genes from lethal human brain infections.

doi:10.1128/JVI.65.6.3161-3166.1991

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Functional and nonfunctional measles virus matrix genes from lethal human brain infections.

Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1991

Ballart I, Huber M, Schmid A, Cattaneo R, Billeter M A

Abstract excerpt

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a lethal disease induced by the persistence of measles virus in the human brain. In many SSPE cases, the viral matrix (M) protein cannot be detected; in others, M proteins of the expected size are found and sequence analysis of M cDNAs has confirmed t...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
Cell Line
DNA, Viral
Genes, Viral
Glycoproteins
Humans
Measles virus
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Plasmids
SSPE Virus
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
Viral Matrix Proteins

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