Initiation of minus-strand RNA synthesis by the brome mosaic virus RNA- dependent RNA polymerase: Use of oligoribonucleotide primers

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 6826-6830

  Kao, Chris Cheng ^a   Sun, Jin Hua ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; MOSAIC VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0001289273     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.10.6826-6830.1996     Document Type: Article

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