Hepatitis C virus genomic RNA dimerization is mediated via a kissing complex intermediate

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 913-925

  Shetty, Sumangala ^a   Kim, Seungtaek ^b   Shimakami, Tetsuro ^b   Lemon, Stanley M ^b   Mihailescu, Mihaela Rita ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

2 amino purine; Core protein; Fluorescence spectroscopy; HCV; RNA kissing complex; X RNA

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DIMERIZATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, VIRAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77951161219     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1960410     Document Type: Article

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