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Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 173)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Molecular Biology of Coronaviruses

    1. Overview

    2. Viral Proteins and Maturation

    3. Virus Specific RNAs: Structure and Replication

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About this book

The present volume contains the Proceedings of an EMBO Workshop organized in June 1983 by the Institute of Virology, Veterinary Faculty, State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Some 70 scientists from 11 countries followed the invitation to present and discuss their recent data on the structure, replication, genetics and pathogenesis of coronaviruses. It was the second international meeting on these viruses; the Workshop, which was held in Zeist near Utrecht followed the example of the Wuerzburg symposium of October 1980. At that time it became clear that coronaviruses are unique in many respects. Once a group of viruses that were defined merely on the basis of their characteristic peplomer morphology, Coronaviridae family members are known today - to be constructed from essentially three polypeptides - to use a "nested set" of 5-6 subgenomic mRNAs in the expression of their large, positive and single stranded RNA genome, - to generate these subgenomic RNAs through specific fusion of non­ contiguous sequences, - to mature by budding from intracellular membranes, - to cause persistent infection with neurological involvement and sometimes immunopathological conditons. These and many other findings have been established only very recently. The articles collected in this book reveal and/or further detail these findings. Since these Proceedings contain the combined scientific presentations of representatives from virtually all laboratories engaged in the field, they provide a fairly comprehensive review of the state of the art in corona­ virology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    P. J. M. Rottier, B. A. M. Zeijst, W. J. M. Spaan, M. C. Horzinek

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Molecular Biology and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses

  • Editors: P. J. M. Rottier, B. A. M. Zeijst, W. J. M. Spaan, M. C. Horzinek

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9373-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-9375-1Published: 25 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-9373-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 409

  • Topics: Medical Microbiology

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