A single nucleotide insertion in the 5'-untranslated region of hepatitis C virus leads to enhanced cap-independent translation

Virology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 263-270

  Zhang, Jing ^a   Yamada, Osamu ^a   Ito, Takayoshi ^b   Akiyama, Masaki ^a   Hashimoto, Yoshitami ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Makino, Reiko ^b   Masago, Akinori ^c   Uemura, Hidetoshi ^a   Araki, Hiromasa ^a  

^a Fuso Pharmaceutical Industries   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMINE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIBOSOME; RNA CAPPING; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0033198523     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9879     Document Type: Article

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