West Nile virus genome cyclization and RNA replication require two pairs of long-distance RNA interactions

Virology

Volumn 373, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Dong, Hongping ^a   Stein, David A ^b   Iversen, Patrick L ^b   Shi, Pei Yong ^a,c  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b AVI BIOPHARMA INC   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiviral therapy; Flavivirus replication; Genome cyclization; RNA cis elements; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

3'UAR PROTEIN; 5'UAR PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENOMIC RNA; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHORODIAMIDATE MORPHOLINA OLIGOMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIZATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

FLAVIVIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 40649100035     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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