A novel assay for viral microRNA function identifies a single nucleotide polymorphism that affects Drosha processing

Journal of Virology

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 5321-5326

  Gottwein, Eva ^a   Cai, Xuezhong ^a   Cullen, Bryan R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSHA; LUCIFERASE; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENTIVIRINAE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RENILLA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TARGET CELL; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT;

HERPESVIRUS 8, HUMAN; MICRORNAS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA, VIRAL; SARCOMA, KAPOSI;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; RENILLA LUCIFERASE; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 33646721162     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02734-05     Document Type: Article

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