Dynamics: the missing link between structure and function of the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase?

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 768-774

  Cameron, Craig E ^a   Moustafa, Ibrahim M ^a   Arnold, Jamie J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA REPLICASE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRUSES;

EID: 70549114081     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2009.10.012     Document Type: Review

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