Transcriptional slippage prompts recoding in alternate reading frames in the hepatitis C virus (HCV) core sequence from strain HCV-1

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1569-1578

  Ratinier, Maxine ^a   Boulant, Steeve ^b   Combet, Christophe ^a   Targett Adams, Paul ^b   Mclauchlan, John ^b   Lavergne, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; H 77; VIRUS RNA; CORE PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, REPORTER; HEPACIVIRUS; LUCIFERASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 48849117141     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.83614-0     Document Type: Article

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