Cap binding and immune evasion revealed by Lassa nucleoprotein structure

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7325, 2010, Pages 779-785

  Qi, Xiaoxuan ^a   Lan, Shuiyun ^b   Wang, Wenjian ^c   Schelde, Lisa McLay ^b   Dong, Haohao ^a   Wallat, Gregor D ^a   Ly, Hinh ^b   Liang, Yuying ^b   Dong, Changjiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP BINDING PROTEIN; EXORIBONUCLEASE; INTERFERON; LASSA NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PROTEIN; VACCINE; VIRUS;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTERFERON INDUCTION; LASSA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; X RAY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EXORIBONUCLEASES; IMMUNE EVASION; INTERFERONS; LASSA VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA CAP ANALOGS; RNA CAPS; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

LASSA VIRUS;

EID: 78650132935     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09605     Document Type: Article

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