Secondary structure and function of the 5′-proximal region of the equine arteritis virus RNA genome

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 424-437

  Van Den Born, Erwin ^a   Gultyaev, Alexander P ^b   Snijder, Eric J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5 untranslated region; Arterivirus; Discontinuous transcription; Leader; Nidovirus; Subgenomic mRNA synthesis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CORONAVIRUS; EQUINE VIRAL ARTERITIS VIRUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAMSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIDOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA VIRUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERITIS VIRUS, EQUINE; BASE SEQUENCE; HORSES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

ANIMALIA; ARTERIVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; CRICETINAE; EQUIDAE; EQUINE ARTERITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 1242318840     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5174804     Document Type: Article

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