Codon conservation in the influenza A virus genome defines RNA packaging signals

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1897-1907

  Gog, Julia R ^a   Dos Santos Afonso, Emmanuel ^b   Dalton, Rosa M ^a   Leclercq, India ^b   Tiley, Laurence ^a   Elton, Debra ^a,c   von Kirchbach, Johann C ^a   Naffakh, Nadia ^b   Escriou, Nicolas ^b   Digard, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ANIMAL HEALTH TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; VIRUS RNA; INFLUENZA VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRION; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS PARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 34247869063     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm087     Document Type: Article

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