Importance of coronavirus negative-strand genomic RNA synthesis prior to subgenomic RNA transcription

Virus Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 35-42

  Maeda, Akihiko ^a   An, Sungwhan ^a   Makino, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronavirus; Negative strand RNA; RNA transcription

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; MICE; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CORONAVIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS STRAIN 4;

EID: 0031759059     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1702(98)00090-2     Document Type: Article

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