Secondary structure of the 3′-noncoding region of flavivirus genomes: Comparative analysis of base pairing probabilities

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 779-791

  Rauscher, Susanne ^a   Flamm, Christoph ^a   Mandl, Christian W ^b   Heinz, Franz X ^b   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b,c  

^a Institut fur Theoretische Chemie und Strahlenchemie   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 noncoding region; Base pairing probabilities; RNA secondary structure; Structural alignment

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; EUROPE; FAR EAST; FLAVIVIRUS; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

FLAVIVIRUS;

EID: 0030759370     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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