The stability of the duplex between sense and antisense transcription-regulating sequences is a crucial factor in arterivirus subgenomic mRNA synthesis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1175-1183

  Pasternak, Alexander O ^a   Van den Born, Erwin ^a   Spaan, Willy J M ^a   Snijder, Eric J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTERIVIRUS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); ARTERITIS VIRUS, EQUINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PROBES; GENOME, VIRAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037223731     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.2.1175-1183.2003     Document Type: Article

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