Substrate complexes of hepatitis C virus RNA polymerase (HC-J4): Structural evidence for nucleotide import and De-novo initiation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1025-1035

  O'Farrell, Damien ^a   Trowbridge, Rachel ^a   Rowlands, David ^a   Jäger, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crystal structure; De novo priming; Hepatitis C virus replication; RNA polymerase; Substrate complexes

Indexed keywords

METAL ION; PHOSPHATE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0037470586     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01439-0     Document Type: Article

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