De novo synthesis of negative-strand RNA by dengue virus RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in vitro: Nucleotide, primer, and template parameters

Journal of Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 8831-8842

  Nomaguchi, Masako ^a,b,c   Ackermann, Matt ^a   Yon, Changsuek ^b   You, Shihyun ^a,d   Padmanbhan, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Kyurin Corporation   (Japan)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DENGUE VIRUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERMINAL SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA PRIMERS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0041707804     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.77.16.8831-8842.2003     Document Type: Article

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