Different de novo initiation strategies are used by influenza virus RNA polymerase on its cRNA and viral RNA promoters during viral RNA replication

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2337-2348

  Deng, Tao ^a   Vreede, Frank T ^a   Brownlee, George G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA REPLICATION; SCREENING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE PAIRING; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, COMPLEMENTARY; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN INFLUENZA VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 33144488409     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.80.5.2337-2348.2006     Document Type: Article

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