In vivo addition of poly(A) tail and AU-rich sequences to the 3' terminus of the sindbis virus RNA genome: A novel 3'-end repair pathway

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2410-2419

  Raju, Ramaswamy ^a   Hajjou, Mustapha ^a   Hill, Kristie R ^a   Botta, Vandana ^a   Botta, Sisir ^a  

^a MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0033023884     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2410-2419.1999     Document Type: Article

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