The hepatitis B virus PRE contains a splicing regulatory element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 353-363

  Heise, Tilman ^a   Sommer, Gunhild ^a   Reumann, Kerstin ^a   Meyer, Imke ^b   Will, Hans ^a   Schaal, Heiner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst fur Med Mikrobiol Virologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENOMIC RNA; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY ELEMENT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SPLICING REGULATORY ELEMENT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSPORT; VIRUS GENOME;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICING; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 31544475484     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj440     Document Type: Article

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