cis-acting elements within an RNA coliphage genome: Fold as you please, but fold you must!!

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 433-446

  Arora, Ruchi ^a,b   Priano, Christine ^a   Jacobson, Ann B ^a,c   Mills, Donald R ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein complementation; Q RNA; Readthrough protein; RNA bacteriophages; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS PLAQUE; VIRUS TITRATION;

EID: 0029866750     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0260     Document Type: Article

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