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Determinants of organ tropism of Sendai virus.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Dec 1997
Tashiro M, Seto J T
Abstract excerpt
Wild-type Sendai virus is exclusively pneumotropic in mice. Protease activation mutants, ts-f1 and F1-R, were isolated from persistently infected tissue culture cells. Additional mutants were isolated from wild-type Sendai virus with phenotypes similar to the pantropic mutant, F1-R. The genome of the mutants was sequenced and mutations were revealed in several proteins encoded by the genes. Three of the six...
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