Vaccinia Virus and Poxvirology: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 269)

✍ Scribed by Stuart N. Isaacs

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Series: Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 269
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A comprehensive collection of cutting-edge methods to study and work with the vaccinia virus and other poxvirus gene transcriptions. These readily reproducible techniques can be used for the construction and characterization of recombinant viruses; for the study of poxvirus gene transcription and DNA replication; for the investigation of the binding, entry, and movement of the virus in host cells; and for the use of the virus in immunologic and cell-cell fusion assays. Other methods cover poxvirus bioinformatics, aspects of viral pathogenesis at both a protein and an animal model level, and the study of immune responses to poxviruses-the latter a critical ability given the important role of vaccinia virus in smallpox vaccination and their potential role as vaccine vectors directed against infectious agents and cancer.