Multiple nucleic acid binding sites and intrinsic disorder of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nucleocapsid protein: Implications for ribonucleocapsid protein packaging

Journal of Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2255-2264

  Chang, Chung Ke ^a   Hsu, Yen Lan ^a   Chang, Yuan Hsiang ^a   Chao, Fa An ^a   Wu, Ming Chya ^b,c   Huang, Yu Shan ^d   Hu, Chin Kun ^b,e   Huang, Tai Huang ^a,f,g  

^a Institute of Biomedical Science   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, CORONAVIRUS; VIRUS RNA;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA BINDING; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CORONAVIRIDAE; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 60049100937     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02001-08     Document Type: Article

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