Identification of novel microRNA-like molecules generated from herpesvirus and host tRNA transcripts

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 10344-10353

  Reese, Tiffany A ^a   Xia, Jing ^b   Johnson, L Steven ^a   Zhou, Xiang ^b   Zhang, Weixiong ^b,c   Virgin, Herbert W ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MICRORNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; TRANSFER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HERPES VIRUS; HOST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENOME; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; RHADINOVIRUS;

HERPESVIRIDAE; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RHADINOVIRUS; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 77956820219     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00707-10     Document Type: Article

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