Structure of the flavivirus helicase: Implications for catalytic activity, protein interactions, and proteolytic processing

Journal of Virology

Volumn 79, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 10268-10277

  Wu, Jinhua ^a,c   Bera, Aloke Kumar ^a   Kuhn, Richard J ^a   Smith, Janet L ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; POLYPROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RNA TRIPHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN NS3; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FLAVIVIRUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA CAPPING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; YELLOW FEVER FLAVIVIRUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CATALYSIS; FLAVIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA HELICASES; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; WEST NILE VIRUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS;

EID: 23244450531     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.79.16.10268-10277.2005     Document Type: Article

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