Importance of mRNA secondary structural elements for the expression of influenza virus genes

OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 421-430

  Ilyinskii, Petr O ^a,f   Schmidt, Thorsten ^b   Lukashev, Dmitry ^c   Meriin, Anatoli B ^d   Thoidis, Galini ^a   Frishman, Dmitrij ^b,e   Shneider, Alexander M ^a  

^a Cure Lab Inc   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^f Selecta Biosciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; PROTEIN NP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA VIRUS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 70349678387     PISSN: 15362310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/omi.2009.0036     Document Type: Article

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