Hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site initiates protein synthesis at the authentic initiation codon in yeast

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1992-2002

  Masek, Tomas ^a   Vopalensky, Vaclav ^a   Horvath, Ondrej ^b   Vortelova, Lucie ^a   Feketova, Zuzana ^a   Pospisek, Martin ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRAL GENETICS; YEAST CELL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34347330355     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82782-0     Document Type: Article

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