Short communicationAlterations and diversity in the cytoplasmic tail of the fusion protein of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis virus strains isolated in Osaka, Japan☆
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Acknowledgements
We thank Ms M. Egami for her technical assistance and Drs M. Watanabe and S. Ueda for communicating the sequence data of the Biken strain. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 10670290 and No. 11670779) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan, a Grant-in-Aid for Special Research from Osaka City University, and a grant from the Osaka Medical Research Foundation for Incurable Diseases.
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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper for nucleotide sequences with accession numbers AF179430–AF179441 have been deposited in the DDBJ, EMBL, and GenBank™ databases.
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