Bioinformatic and functional analysis of RNA secondary structure elements among different genera of human and animal caliciviruses

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2530-2546

  Simmonds, Peter ^a   Karakasiliotis, Ioannis ^b   Bailey, Dalan ^b   Chaudhry, Yasmin ^b   Evans, David J ^c   Goodfellow, Ian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CALICIVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LAGOVIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SAPOVIRUS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VESIVIRUS;

CALICIVIRIDAE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; NOROVIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE; LAGOVIRUS; MURINE NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS; SAPOVIRUS; VESIVIRUS;

EID: 43349101238     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn096     Document Type: Article

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