The UCUAAAC promoter motif is not required for high-frequency leader recombination in bovine coronavirus defective interfering RNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2720-2729

  Chang, Ruey Y I ^a,b   Krishnan, Rajesh ^a,c   Brian, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CORONAVIRUS; CROSSING OVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0029880854     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.5.2720-2729.1996     Document Type: Article

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