The hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site adopts an ion-dependent tertiary fold

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 513-529

  Kieft, Jeffrey S ^a   Zhou, Kaihong ^a   Jubin, Ronald ^b   Murray, Michael G ^b   Lau, Johnson Y N ^b   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical and enzymatic probing; Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Internal ribosomal entry site (IRES); RNA structure; Translation

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION;

EID: 0033600934     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3095     Document Type: Article

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