Kissing-loop interaction in the 3′ end of the hepatitis C virus genome essential for RNA replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 380-392

  Friebe, Peter ^a   Boudet, Julien ^b   Simorre, Jean Pierre ^b   Bartenschlager, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

ARTICLE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CODE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA REPLICATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 10644226734     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.1.380-392.2005     Document Type: Article

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