Structural requirements for initiation of translation by internal ribosome entry within genome-length hepatitis C virus RNA

Virology

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-42

  Honda, Masao ^a   Ping, Li Hua ^a   Rijnbrand, Rene C A ^b   Amphlett, Elizabeth ^c   Clarke, Berwyn ^c   Rowlands, David ^c   Lemon, Stanley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MIRIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030219426     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0395     Document Type: Article

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