Influenza virus RNA structure: Unique and common features

International Reviews of Immunology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 533-556

  Gultyaev, Alexander P ^a,b   Fouchier, Ron A M ^a   Olsthoorn, René C L ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

influenza virus; negative sense RNA virus; RNA structure; segmented RNA genome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARENAVIRUS; BUNYAVIRUS; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS C; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TENUIVIRUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RNA, VIRAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 78649300987     PISSN: 08830185     EISSN: 15635244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08830185.2010.507828     Document Type: Review

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