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List of works by Gail W. Wertz

A temperature sensitive VSV identifies L protein residues that affect transcription but not replication

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Adding genes to the RNA genome of vesicular stomatitis virus: positional effects on stability of expression

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Analysis of a structural homology model of the 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase domain within the vesicular stomatitis virus L protein

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Antigenic and genetic variation in human respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published on January 2004

Antigenic heterogeneity of the attachment protein of bovine respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published in February 1994

Antigenically distinct G glycoproteins of BRSV strains share a high degree of genetic homogeneity

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Biological differences between vesicular stomatitis virus Indiana and New Jersey serotype glycoproteins: identification of amino acid residues modulating pH-dependent infectivity

scientific article published on March 2005

Bovine respiratory syncytial virus nucleocapsid protein: mRNA sequence analysis and expression from recombinant vaccinia virus vectors

scientific article published on April 1, 1992

Bunyamwera bunyavirus RNA synthesis requires cooperation of 3'- and 5'-terminal sequences

scientific article published on February 2004

Cells that express all five proteins of vesicular stomatitis virus from cloned cDNAs support replication, assembly, and budding of defective interfering particles.

scientific article published on February 1991

Characterization of bovine respiratory syncytial virus proteins and mRNAs and generation of cDNA clones to the viral mRNAs

scientific article published on February 1989

Characterization of two antigenic sites recognized by neutralizing monoclonal antibodies directed against the fusion glycoprotein of human respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Coding assignments of the five smaller mRNAs of Newcastle disease virus

scientific article published on September 1982

Comparison of the virulence of wild-type thymidine kinase (tk)-deficient and tk+ phenotypes of vaccinia virus recombinants after intranasal inoculation of mice

scientific article published in January 1991

Correct sequence for the major nucleocapsid protein mRNA of respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published in October 1985

Cytotoxic T cell specificity for respiratory syncytial virus proteins: fusion protein is an important target antigen

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Definition and functional analysis of the signal/anchor domain of the human respiratory syncytial virus glycoprotein G.

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Expression and glycosylation of the respiratory syncytial virus G protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

scientific article published in August 1987

Expression of the fusion protein of human respiratory syncytial virus from recombinant vaccinia virus vectors and protection of vaccinated mice

scientific article published on February 1987

Expression of the major glycoprotein G of human respiratory syncytial virus from recombinant vaccinia virus vectors

scientific article published on January 1986

Extent of terminal complementarity modulates the balance between transcription and replication of vesicular stomatitis virus RNA.

scientific article published on August 1994

Fitness analyses of vesicular stomatitis strains with rearranged genomes reveal replicative disadvantages

scientific article published on September 2004

Gene rearrangement attenuates expression and lethality of a nonsegmented negative strand RNA virus

scientific article published on March 31, 1998

Helical virus structure: the case of the rhabdovirus bullet

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Helper T cell recognition of respiratory syncytial virus in mice

scientific article published in February 1988

Human and murine cytotoxic T cells specific to respiratory syncytial virus recognize the viral nucleoprotein (N), but not the major glycoprotein (G), expressed by vaccinia virus recombinants

scientific article published in December 1986

Human cytotoxic T cells stimulated by antigen on dendritic cells recognize the N, SH, F, M, 22K, and 1b proteins of respiratory syncytial virus.

scientific article published on April 1992

Human respiratory syncytial virus glycoprotein G expressed from a recombinant vaccinia virus vector protects mice against live-virus challenge

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Human respiratory syncytial virus glycoproteins are not required for apical targeting and release from polarized epithelial cells

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Identification of a minimal size requirement for termination of vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA: implications for the mechanism of transcription.

scientific article published on September 2000

Identification of a single amino acid change in the human respiratory syncytial virus L protein that affects transcriptional termination

scientific article published on July 2003

Identification of a tenth mRNA of respiratory syncytial virus and assignment of polypeptides to the 10 viral genes.

scientific article published on February 1984

Identification of an upstream sequence element required for vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA transcription

scientific article published in August 2002

Identification of the Bunyamwera bunyavirus transcription termination signal

scientific article published in January 2006

Immune and histopathological responses in animals vaccinated with recombinant vaccinia viruses that express individual genes of human respiratory syncytial virus.

scientific article published on December 1987

Importance of hydrogen bond contacts between the N protein and RNA genome of vesicular stomatitis virus in encapsidation and RNA synthesis

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Infectious defective interfering particles of VSV from transcripts of a cDNA clone

scientific article published on June 12, 1992

Intracellular processing of the human respiratory syncytial virus fusion glycoprotein: amino acid substitutions affecting folding, transport and cleavage

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Moving the glycoprotein gene of vesicular stomatitis virus to promoter-proximal positions accelerates and enhances the protective immune response

scientific article published on September 2000

Mutations in the C-terminal loop of the nucleocapsid protein affect vesicular stomatitis virus RNA replication and transcription differentially

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Newly identified phosphorylation site in the vesicular stomatitis virus P protein is required for viral RNA synthesis

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Nucleotide sequence analysis and expression from recombinant vectors demonstrate that the attachment protein G of bovine respiratory syncytial virus is distinct from that of human respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published on November 1990

Nucleotide sequence analysis of the bovine respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein mRNA and expression from a recombinant vaccinia virus

scientific article published on March 1991

Nucleotide sequence of the G protein gene of human respiratory syncytial virus reveals an unusual type of viral membrane protein

scientific article published in June 1985

Nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding the fusion (F) glycoprotein of human respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published on December 1984

Nucleotide sequences of the 1B and 1C nonstructural protein mRNAs of human respiratory syncytial virus

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Phenotypic consequences of rearranging the P, M, and G genes of vesicular stomatitis virus

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Polylactosaminoglycan modification of the respiratory syncytial virus small hydrophobic (SH) protein: a conserved feature among human and bovine respiratory syncytial viruses

scientific article published on November 1992

Priming with Secreted Glycoprotein G of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Augments Interleukin-5 Production and Tissue Eosinophilia after RSV Challenge

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Rearrangement of the genes of vesicular stomatitis virus eliminates clinical disease in the natural host: new strategy for vaccine development

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Recombinant vaccinia viruses carrying the N gene of human respiratory syncytial virus: studies of gene expression in cell culture and immune response in mice

scientific article published on September 1987

Recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing the F, G or N, but not the M2, protein of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) induce resistance to BRSV challenge in the calf and protect against the development of pneumonic lesions

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Recombinant vesicular stomatitis (Indiana) virus expressing New Jersey and Indiana glycoproteins induces neutralizing antibodies to each serotype in swine, a natural host

scientific article published in September 2004

Regulation of RNA synthesis by the genomic termini of vesicular stomatitis virus: identification of distinct sequences essential for transcription but not replication

scientific article published on January 1999

Requirements for Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Glycoproteins in Assembly and Egress from Infected Cells

scientific article published on May 16, 2011

Respiratory syncytial virus and other pneumoviruses: a review of the international symposium--RSV 2003.

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Respiratory syncytial virus matures at the apical surfaces of polarized epithelial cells

scientific article published on April 1995

Role of the conserved nucleotide mismatch within 3'- and 5'-terminal regions of Bunyamwera virus in signaling transcription

scientific article published in March 2005

Role of the intergenic dinucleotide in vesicular stomatitis virus RNA transcription

scientific article published in March 1997

S-adenosyl homocysteine-induced hyperpolyadenylation of vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA requires the methyltransferase activity of L protein

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Second-site mutations selected in transcriptional regulatory sequences compensate for engineered mutations in the vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsid protein

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Segment-specific terminal sequences of Bunyamwera bunyavirus regulate genome replication

scientific article published on 5 July 2003

Selection for gene junction sequences important for VSV transcription

scientific article published on 9 September 2008

Structure and cell surface maturation of the attachment glycoprotein of human respiratory syncytial virus in a cell line deficient in O glycosylation.

scientific article published on November 1989

Structure of the vesicular stomatitis virus nucleoprotein-RNA complex

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The 1A protein gene of human respiratory syncytial virus: nucleotide sequence of the mRNA and a related polycistronic transcript

scientific article published in March 1985

The 22,000-kilodalton protein of respiratory syncytial virus is a major target for Kd-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes from mice primed by infection.

scientific article published on April 1990

The 5' terminal trailer region of vesicular stomatitis virus contains a position-dependent cis-acting signal for assembly of RNA into infectious particles.

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The Bunyamwera virus mRNA transcription signal resides within both the 3' and the 5' terminal regions and allows ambisense transcription from a model RNA segment

scientific article published in October 2005

The VSV polymerase can initiate at mRNA start sites located either up or downstream of a transcription termination signal but size of the intervening intergenic region affects efficiency of initiation

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The baculovirus GP64 protein mediates highly stable infectivity of a human respiratory syncytial virus lacking its homologous transmembrane glycoproteins

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The bulk of the phosphorylation of human respiratory syncytial virus phosphoprotein is not essential but modulates viral RNA transcription and replication

scientific article published in January 2000

The cytoplasmic tail of the human respiratory syncytial virus F protein plays critical roles in cellular localization of the F protein and infectious progeny production

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The envelope-associated 22K protein of human respiratory syncytial virus: nucleotide sequence of the mRNA and a related polytranscript

scientific article published on April 1985

The genome of respiratory syncytial virus is a negative-stranded RNA that codes for at least seven mRNA species.

scientific article published on July 1982

The membrane-associated and secreted forms of the respiratory syncytial virus attachment glycoprotein G are synthesized from alternative initiation codons

scientific article published on July 1994

The respiratory syncytial virus subgroup B attachment glycoprotein: analysis of sequence, expression from a recombinant vector, and evaluation as an immunogen against homologous and heterologous subgroup virus challenge

scientific article published on September 1, 1990

The stability of human respiratory syncytial virus is enhanced by incorporation of the baculovirus GP64 protein

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The termini of VSV DI particle RNAs are sufficient to signal RNA encapsidation, replication, and budding to generate infectious particles

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Transcription and replication initiate at separate sites on the vesicular stomatitis virus genome

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Transcriptional control of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of vesicular stomatitis virus

scientific article published in September 2002

Transcriptional mapping of human respiratory syncytial virus.

scientific article published on November 1984

Transcriptional termination modulated by nucleotides outside the characterized gene end sequence of respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published in September 2002

VSV RNA synthesis: How can you be positive?

scientific article published on October 1, 1981

Variations in intergenic region sequences of Human respiratory syncytial virus clinical isolates: analysis of effects on transcriptional regulation

scientific article published in September 2004

Variations in transcription termination signals of human respiratory syncytial virus clinical isolates affect gene expression

scientific article published in August 2003

Vesicular Stomatitis Viruses with Rearranged Genomes Have Altered Invasiveness and Neuropathogenesis in Mice

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein is a determinant of pathogenesis in swine, a natural host

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cDNA cloning and transcriptional mapping of nine polyadenylylated RNAs encoded by the genome of human respiratory syncytial virus

scientific article published on June 1, 1983

cis-Acting signals involved in termination of vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA synthesis include the conserved AUAC and the U7 signal for polyadenylation

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

trans-Complementation allows recovery of human respiratory syncytial viruses that are infectious but deficient in cell-to-cell transmission

scientific article published on September 2004