Recognition of bacteriophage Qβ plus strand RNA as a template by Qβ replicase: Role of RNA interactions mediated by ribosomal proteins S1 and host factor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1089-1103

  Miranda, Giovanni ^a   Schuppli, Daniel ^a   Barrera, Imma ^a   Hausherr, Christoph ^a   Sogo, José M ^b   Weber, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage Q ; Host factor; Protein S1; Replicase; Template recognition

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; Q BETA REPLICASE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S1; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME SUBUNIT; HOST; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA REPLICATION; BINDING SITE; COLIPHAGE; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLOLEVIVIRUS; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; Q BETA REPLICASE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031576897     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.0939     Document Type: Article

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