Filovirus replication and transcription

Future Virology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 205-215

  Mühlberger, Elke ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; Hemorrhagic fever; Marburg virus; Nonsegmented negative sense RNA viruses; Nucleocapsid complex; Replication; Reverse genetics; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROLIPOAMIDE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN VP24; PROTEIN VP30; PROTEIN VP35; PROTEIN VP40; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; EBOLA VIRUS; FILOVIRUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MARBURG VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYADENYLATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA METHYLATION; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

EBOLA VIRUS; LAKE VICTORIA MARBURGVIRUS; MARBURGVIRUS; MONONEGAVIRALES; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 34249289035     PISSN: 17460794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17460794.2.2.205     Document Type: Review

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