A complex RNA motif defined by three discontinuous 5-nucleotide-long strands is essential for Flavivirus RNA replication

RNA

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1791-1813

  Song, Byung Hak ^a   Yun, Sang Im ^a   Choi, Yu Jeong ^a   Kim, Jeong Min ^a   Lee, Chan Hee ^b   Lee, Young Min ^a  

^a Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Base pairings; cis acting elements; Flavivirus; Japanese encephalitis virus; RNA replication

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

FLAVIVIRUS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 50649121086     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.993608     Document Type: Article

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