An RNA conformational shift in recent H5N1 influenza A viruses

Bioinformatics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 272-276

  Gultyaev, Alexander P ^a   Heus, Hans A ^b   Olsthoorn, René C L ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOPHYSICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS STRAIN;

AVES; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 33847333917     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl559     Document Type: Article

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