Solution structure of stem-loop α of the hepatitis B virus post-transcriptional regulatory element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1681-1689

  Schwalbe, Martin ^a   Ohlenschläger, Oliver ^a   Marchanka, Aliaksandr ^a   Ramachandran, Ramadurai ^a   Häfner, Sabine ^a   Heise, Tilman ^b   Görlach, Matthias ^a  

^a FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY ELEMENT; STEM LOOP ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSPORT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRAL GENETICS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, VIRAL; SOLUTIONS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 41149124511     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn006     Document Type: Article

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