Amino acid residues critical for RNA-binding in the N-terminal domain of the nucleocapsid protein are essential determinants for the infectivity of coronavirus in cultured cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4816-4825

  Tan, Yong Wah ^a   Fang, Shouguo ^a   Fan, Hui ^b   Lescar, Julien ^b   Liu, D X ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; TYROSINE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; GENETIC STABILITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERO CELL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERO CELLS;

AVIAN INFECTIOUS BRONCHITIS VIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 33750208365     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl650     Document Type: Article

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