Determinants of vaccinia virus early gene transcription termination

Virology

Volumn 376, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 211-224

  Piacente, Sarah ^a   Christen, Linda ^a   Dickerman, Benjamin ^a   Mohamed, Mohamed R ^a   Niles, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase; Transcript release; Transcription termination; Vaccinia

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NEPHROCYSTIN 1; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE PHOSPHOHYDROLASE 1; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VACCINIA TERMINATION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VACCINIA VIRUS; VIRION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DEOXYADENINE NUCLEOTIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOSIDE-TRIPHOSPHATASE; RNA, VIRAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VACCINIA VIRUS;

VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 43749123252     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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