The cap-snatching endonuclease of influenza virus polymerase resides in the PA subunit

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7240, 2009, Pages 914-918

  Dias, Alexandre ^a   Bouvier, Denis ^a   Crépin, Thibaut ^a   McCarthy, Andrew A ^a   Hart, Darren J ^a   Baudin, Florence ^a   Cusack, Stephen ^a   Ruigrok, Rob W H ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTYRIC ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE; HISTIDINE; INFLUENZA VIRUS POLYMERASE; MANGANESE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RESOLVASE; RNA; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENZYME;

CELL ORGANELLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA; ENZYME; GENOME; INFLUENZA; MUTATION; RNA; VIRUS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; ENDONUCLEASES; ENZYME STABILITY; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZAVIRUS C; MANGANESE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA CAPS; RNA REPLICASE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

EID: 67249130012     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07745     Document Type: Article

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