The 3a accessory protein of SARS coronavirus specifically interacts with the 5′UTR of its genomic RNA, using a unique 75 amino acid interaction domain

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 6488-6499

  Sharma, Kulbhushan ^a   Surjit, Milan ^a   Satija, Namita ^a   Liu, Boping ^b   Chow, Vincent T K ^b   Lai, Sunil K ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PATHOGENS; PROTEINS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RNA;

BINDING ACTIVITY; CAPSIDS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME (SARS) EPIDEMIC;

VIRUSES;

GENOMIC RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; VIRUS GENOME;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SARS VIRUS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

MIRIDAE; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 34249885590     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi062057p     Document Type: Article

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