A Highly Structured, Nuclease-Resistant, Noncoding RNA Produced by Flaviviruses Is Required for Pathogenicity

Cell Host and Microbe

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 579-591

  Pijlman, Gorben P ^a   Funk, Anneke ^a   Kondratieva, Natasha ^a   Leung, Jason ^a   Torres, Shessy ^a   van der Aa, Lieke ^a   Liu, Wen Jun ^a   Palmenberg, Ann C ^b   Shi, Pei Yong ^c   Hall, Roy A ^a   Khromykh, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MICROBIO; RNA

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEASE; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAVIVIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT, VIRAL; FLAVIVIRUS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLAQUE ASSAY; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; RNA, VIRAL;

FLAVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 57049096375     PISSN: 19313128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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