Characterization of the Bas - Congo virus glycoprotein and its function in 1 pseudotyped viruses
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Characterization of the Bas-Congo virus glycoprotein and its function in 1 pseudotyped viruses. 2 3 Imke Steffen, Nathan M. Liss, Bradley S. Schneider, Joseph N. Fair, Charles Y. Chiu, 4 Graham Simmons 5 6 Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco, California, United States of America; 7 Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, 8 California, United States of America; Metabiota, San Francisco, California, United States of 9 America; UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, San Francisco, California, 10 United States of America. 11 12 13 14 Running title: Characterization of the Bas-Congo virus glycoprotein (52 characters incl. spaces) 15 16 17 18 Word count: Abstract: 249 words, Text (excluding references and figure legends): 6,431 words 19 20 21 22 23 Corresponding author. Please address correspondence to: 24 Graham Simmons, PhD 25 270 Masonic Ave. 26 San Francisco, CA 94118 27 Phone: (415) 901-0748 28 Fax: (415) 567-5899 29 Email: [email protected] 30 31 Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.01183-13 JVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 19 June 2013
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