Medical Definition of Semliki forest virus
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Enveloped virus of the alphavirus group of Togaviridae. First isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest in Uganda, not known to cause any illness. The synthesis and export of its three spike glycoproteins, via the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, have been used as a model for the synthesis and export of plasma membrane proteins.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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