Nidovirus transcription: How to make sense...?

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1403-1421

  Pasternak, Alexander O ^a   Spaan, Willy J M ^a   Snijder, Eric J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTASE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTERIVIRUS; BASE PAIRING; CORONAVIRUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NIDOVIRALES; NIDOVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPLICON; REVIEW; RNA RECOMBINATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOROVIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; HUMANS; NIDOVIRALES; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ARTERIVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; NIDOVIRALES; RNA VIRUSES; TOROVIRUS;

EID: 33744789955     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81611-0     Document Type: Review

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