Internal and 3' RNA initiation by Qβ replicase directed by CCA boxes

Virology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 363-370

  Yoshinari, Shigeo ^a   Dreher, Theo W ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3' adenylation; Initiation of RNA synthesis; Positive strand RNA virus; Q bacteriophage; RNA dependent RNA polymerase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

RNA VIRUSES; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0034608198     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0334     Document Type: Article

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