Structural insights into SARS coronavirus proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 664-672

  Bartlam, Mark ^a   Yang, Haitao ^a   Rao, Zihe ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SINDBIS VIRUS NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 4; SINDBIS VIRUS PROTEIN NSP9; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CELL MEMBRANE; GENOME; HOST; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA REPLICASE; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SARS VIRUS; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRAL STRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

SARS CORONAVIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS;

EID: 27944459285     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2005.10.004     Document Type: Review

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