Determination of the secondary structure of and cellular protein binding to the 3'-untranslated region of the hepatitis C virus RNA genome

Journal of Virology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 8698-8706

  Ito, Takayoshi ^a   Lai, Michael M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0030812847     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.11.8698-8706.1997     Document Type: Article

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