The triplet repeats of the sin nombre hantavirus 5′ untranslated region are sufficient in cis for nucleocapsid-mediated translation initiation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 8937-8944

  Mir, Mohammad A ^a,b   Panganiban, Antonito T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; CAPSID PROTEIN; CORE PROTEIN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN, HANTAAN VIRUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA SEQUENCE; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VIRUS GENOME; GENETICS; HANTAVIRUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; EUKARYOTA; HANTAVIRUS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; HANTAVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 77956645758     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02720-09     Document Type: Article

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