Altering the tropism of lentiviral vectors through pseudotyping

J Cronin, XY Zhang, J Reiser - Current gene therapy, 2005 - ingentaconnect.com
The host range of retroviral vectors including lentiviral vectors can be expanded or altered
by a process known as pseudotyping. Pseudotyped lentiviral vectors consist of vector …

Lassa virus

S Günther, O Lenz - Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Lassa virus is a RNA virus belonging to the family of Arenaviridae. It was discovered as the
causative agent of a hemorrhagic fever—Lassa fever—about 30 years ago. Lassa fever is …

Genetic diversity among Lassa virus strains

MD Bowen, PE Rollin, TG Ksiazek, HL Hustad… - Journal of …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
The arenavirus Lassa virus causes Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever that is endemic in
the countries of Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea and perhaps elsewhere in West …

Viral escape by selection of cytotoxic T cell-resistant virus variants in vivo

H Pircher, D Moskophidis, U Rohrer, K Bürki… - Nature, 1990 - nature.com
Viruses persist in an immune population, as in the case of influenza, or in an individual, as
postulated for human immunodeficiency virus, when they are able to escape existent …

The S RNA segment of tomato spotted wilt virus has an ambisense character

P de Haan, L Wagemakers… - Journal of General …, 1990 - microbiologyresearch.org
The complete nucleotide sequence of the S RNA of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) was
determined. The RNA is 2916 nucleotides long and has an ambisense coding strategy. The …

Baculovirus expression vectors: the requirements for high level expression of proteins, including glycoproteins

Y Matsuura, RD Possee… - Journal of General …, 1987 - microbiologyresearch.org
The requirements for high level expression of three foreign proteins using the polyhedrin
gene promoter of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcNPV, Baculoviridae) …

Phylogenetic analysis of theArenaviridae: patterns of virus evolution and evidence for cospeciation between arenaviruses and their rodent hosts

MD Bowen, CJ Peters, ST Nichol - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 1997 - Elsevier
Viruses of theArenaviridaecause hemorrhagic fevers and neurologic disease in humans.
Historically, the arenaviruses have been divided into two complexes (LASV-LCMV …

Endoproteolytic processing of the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus glycoprotein by the subtilase SKI-1/S1P

WR Beyer, D Pöpplau, W Garten, D von Laer… - Journal of …, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol
The envelope glycoprotein (GP) of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) is
posttranslationally cleaved into two subunits. We show here that this endoproteolytic …

The completed sequence of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus reveals a unique RNA structure and a gene for a zinc finger protein

MS Salvato, EM Shimomaye - Virology, 1989 - Elsevier
The arenavirus, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) has a single-stranded RNA
genome composed of a large (L) and a small (S) RNA segment. The completed sequence of …

Protective immunity does not correlate with the hierarchy of virus-specific cytotoxic T cell responses to naturally processed peptides

A Gallimore, T Dumrese, H Hengartner… - The Journal of …, 1998 - rupress.org
Infection of C57BL/6 mice with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) stimulates major
histocompatibility complex class I–restricted cytotoxic T cells (CTLs), which normally resolve …