Secondary structure and hybridization accessibility of the hepatitis C virus negative strand RNA 5′-terminus

Journal of Viral Hepatitis

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-123

  Smith, R M ^a   Wu, G Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense oligonucleotide; Hepatitis C virus; Ribonuclease H; RNA; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; HEPACIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; RIBONUCLEASE H, CALF THYMUS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 1642396398     PISSN: 13520504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2893.2003.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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