Alterations to both the primary and predicted secondary structure of stem-loop IIIc of the hepatitis C virus 1b 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) lead to mutants severely defective in translation which cannot be complemented in trans by the wild-type 5'UTR sequence

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2359-2364

  Tang, Shixing ^a,b   Collier, Adam J ^a   Elliott, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0033019289     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2359-2364.1999     Document Type: Article

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