Medical Definition of Baculovirus
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Viruses specialised as pathogens of lepidopteran larvae. Widely used as eukaryotic expression vectors for proteins requiring post translational modifications such as glycosylation, proteolytic cleavage and fatty acylation.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baculovirus
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