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Measles virus grown in Vero cell cultures was examined at the ultra-structural level after immunoperoxidase staining with antiserum against the matrix protein. The antiserum clearly preferentially labeled the fuzzy material surrounding cytoplasmic nucleocapsids, but not the nucleocapsids themselves.
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Brown, H.R., Goller, N., Thormar, H. et al. Fuzzy material surrounding measles virus nucleocapsids identified as matrix protein. Archives of Virology 94, 163–168 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313735
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