Structural and mechanistic insights into hepatitis C viral translation initiation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-38

  Fraser, Christopher S ^a   Doudna, Jennifer A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR; INITIATION FACTOR 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE C; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BINDING SITES; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; HEPACIVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 33845623845     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1558     Document Type: Review

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