Article
Translation initiation at alternate in-frame AUG codons in the rabies virus phosphoprotein mRNA is mediated by a ribosomal leaky scanning mechanism
1 Feb 1995
Abstract excerpt
The phosphoprotein of rabies virus is a 297-amino-acid polypeptide encoded by the longest open reading frame of the P gene. Immunoprecipitation experiments using a monoclonal antiserum directed against the P protein detected the P protein and at least four additional shorter products in infected cells, cells transfected with a plasmid encoding the wild-type P protein, and purified virus (CVS strain). By means of...
