Temperature-sensitive lesions in two influenza a viruses defective for replicative transcription disrupt RNA binding by the nucleoprotein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 7349-7356

  Medcalf, Liz ^a   Poole, Emma ^a   Elton, Debra ^a   Digard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0032837329     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.9.7349-7356.1999     Document Type: Article

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