A hepatitis C virus cis-acting replication element forms a long-range RNA-RNA interaction with upstream RNA sequences in NS5B

Journal of Virology

Volumn 82, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 9008-9022

  Diviney, Sinéad ^a   Tuplin, Andrew ^a   Struthers, Madeleine ^a   Armstrong, Victoria ^b   Elliott, Richard M ^b   Simmonds, Peter ^c   Evans, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 5B;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 50949115626     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02326-07     Document Type: Article

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