Analysis of hepatitis C virus RNA dimerization and core-RNA interactions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2618-2633

  Ivanyi Nagy, Roland ^c   Kanevsky, Igor ^a   Gabus, Caroline ^c   Lavergne, Jean Pierre ^b   Ficheux, Damien ^b   Penin, François ^b   Fossé, Philippe ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^c  

^a Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^b University Lyon i   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS RNA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPLICON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS REPLICATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 33646911699     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl240     Document Type: Article

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