Discontinuous and non-discontinuous subgenomic RNA transcription in a nidovirus

EMBO Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 6571-6580

  Van Vliet, A L W ^a   Smits, S L ^a   Rottier, P J M ^a   De Groot, R J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discontinuous transcription; Nidovirus; RNA recombination; Subgenomic mRNA synthesis; Torovirus

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NIDOVIRALES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA CAPS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; TOROVIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BERNE VIRUS; NIDOVIRALES; RNA VIRUSES; TOROVIRUS;

EID: 0037011138     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdf635     Document Type: Article

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