Mutational analysis of the influenza virus cRNA promoter and identification of nucleotides critical for replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 6263-6270

  Crow, Mandy ^a,b   Deng, Tao ^a   Addley, Mark ^a   Brownlee, George G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CELL STRAIN; CELL STRAIN 293 T; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, VIRAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 2642558647     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.12.6263-6270.2004     Document Type: Article

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