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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 that the reading frames are intact, showing only several missense mutations. To determine whether these alterations...
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