Complete sequence of two tick-borne flaviviruses isolated from Siberia and the UK: Analysis and significance of the 5' and 3'-UTRs

Virus Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-39

  Gritsun, T S ^a   Venugopal, K ^a   Zanotto, P M D A ^a   Mikhailov, M V ^a   Sall, A A ^a   Holmes, E C ^b   Polkinghorne, I ^a   Frolova, T V ^c   Pogodina, V V ^c   Lashkevich, V A ^c   Gould, E A ^a  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

5' and 3' untranslated regions; RNA secondary structure; Sequence of TBE virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLAVIVIRUS; GREAT BRITAIN; MICE; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIBERIA; TICKS;

ACARI; DHORI VIRUS; FLAVIVIRIDAE; FLAVIVIRUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0030900270     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(97)01451-2     Document Type: Article

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