Identification of Hepta- and Octo-Uridine stretches as sole signals for programmed +1 and -1 ribosomal frameshifting during translation of SARS-CoV ORF 3a variants

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1250-1260

  Wang, Xiaoxing ^a   Wong, Sek Man ^a,c   Liu, D X ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; MESSENGER RNA; URIDINE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MUTATION; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; URIDINE; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 33644849008     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl017     Document Type: Article

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