A U-turn motif-containing stem-loop in the coronavirus 5′ untranslated region plays a functional role in replication

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 763-780

  Liu, Pinghua ^a   Li, Lichun ^b   Millership, Jason J ^a,d   Kang, Hyojeung ^a   Leibowitz, Julian L ^a,c   Giedroc, David P ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZOETIS   (United States)

Author keywords

5 untranslated region; Coronavirus replication; MHV; SARS; U turn motif

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORONAVIRUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

CORONAVIRUS; MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 34247382075     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.261807     Document Type: Article

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