Parameters influencing translational efficiency in aphthovirus IRES-based bicistronic expression vectors

Gene

Volumn 217, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 51-56

  López De Quinto, Sonia ^a   Martínez Salas, Encarnación ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bicistronic vectors; Internal translation initiation

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

APHTHOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; APHTHOVIRUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALORIMETRY; CELL LINE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, VIRAL; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

APHTHOVIRUS; EUKARYOTA; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0344906094     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00379-5     Document Type: Article

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