Group-specific structural features of the 5′-proximal sequences of coronavirus genomic RNAs

Virology

Volumn 401, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-41

  Chen, Shih Cheng ^a   Olsthoorn, René C L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5 Untranslated region; Coronavirus; Packaging signal; RNA secondary structure; SARS CoV

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENOMIC RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL; SARS VIRUS;

CORONAVIRUS; HUMAN CORONAVIRUS 229E; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 77950955247     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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