Analysis of the non-sense mutants of varicella-zoster virus thymidine kinase.

doi:10.1007/s007050050223

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Analysis of the non-sense mutants of varicella-zoster virus thymidine kinase.

Archives of virology - 1 Jan 1997

Suzutani T, Koyano S, Saijo M, Chiba A, Azuma M

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Three non-sense mutants of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) thymidine kinase (TK) gene, VZTK325, VZTK278 and VZTK224, were isolated. The mutants had a single nucleotide substitution at codons 326, 279 and 225, which changed the codon of TGG (tryptophan) to the stop codon TGA. The wild type (WT) and m...

Topics

Heating
Herpesvirus 3, Human
Mutation
Sequence Deletion
Thymidine Kinase

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