The apical stem-loop of the hepatitis B virus encapsidation signal folds into a stable tri-loop with two underlying pyrimidine bulges

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4803-4811

  Flodell, Sara ^a   Schleucher, Jürgen ^a   Cromsigt, Jenny ^a   Ippel, Hans ^a   Kidd Ljunggren, Karin ^b   Wijmenga, Sybren ^c  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PYRIMIDINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; URIDINE; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0036849272     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf603     Document Type: Article

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