The structural basis for cap binding by influenza virus polymerase subunit PB2

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 500-506

  Guilligay, Delphine ^a   Tarendeau, Franck ^a   Resa Infante, Patricia ^b,c   Coloma, Rocío ^b,c   Crepin, Thibaut ^a   Sehr, Peter ^d   Lewis, Joe ^d   Ruigrok, Rob W H ^a   Ortin, Juan ^b,c   Hart, Darren J ^a   Cusack, Stephen ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CAP BINDING PROTEIN; CAPPED RNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN PB2; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

CELL LINE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA CAP ANALOGS; RNA CAPS; RNA REPLICASE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 43249128376     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1421     Document Type: Article

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