Divergent picornavirus IRES elements

Virus Research

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-192

  Belsham, Graham J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Flavivirus; Picornavirus; Protein synthesis; Ribosome; RNA; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; PESTIVIRUS; PICORNAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TESCHOVIRUS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PICORNAVIRIDAE; RIBOSOMES; RNA, VIRAL;

FLAVIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PORCINE TESCHOVIRUS 1;

EID: 59749095351     PISSN: 01681702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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