Vesicular stomatitis virus mRNA capping machinery requires specific cis-acting signals in the RNA

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 11499-11506

  Wang, Jennifer T ^a   McElvain, Lauren E ^a   Whelan, Sean P J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CAPPING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA VIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; RNA CAPS; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VESICULAR STOMATITIS; VESICULOVIRUS;

EUKARYOTA; RNA VIRUSES; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 35148849601     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01057-07     Document Type: Article

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