Enhancer-like activity of a brome mosaic virus RNA promoter

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1830-1839

  Ranjith Kumar, C T ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a   Kao, C Cheng ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA TEMPLATE; MOSAIC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BROMOVIRUS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 0037301366     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.3.1830-1839.2003     Document Type: Article

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