Functional screen reveals SARS coronavirus nonstructural protein nsp14 as a novel cap N7 methyltransferase

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3484-3489

  Chen, Yu ^a   Cai, Hui ^a   Pan, Ji'an ^a   Xiang, Nian ^a   Tien, Po ^a   Ahola, Tero ^b   Guo, Deyin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Exoribonuclease; Flavivirus; RNA capping; Yeast

Indexed keywords

CAPPED RNA; DNA; EXORIBONUCLEASE; GUANINE N7 METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN NSP14; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

GENE DELETION; GENOME, VIRAL; GUANOSINE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SARS VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; CORONAVIRUS; EUKARYOTA; FLAVIVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SARS CORONAVIRUS AS;

EID: 62549159638     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808790106     Document Type: Article

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