Identification of potential conserved RNA secondary structure throughout influenza A coding regions

RNA

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 991-1011

  Moss, Walter N ^a   Priore, Salvatore F ^a   Turner, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon suppression; Influenza; RNA; Secondary structure; Structure prediction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GENOMIC RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON USAGE; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; VIRUS GENOME;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, VIRAL;

INFLUENZA A VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 79956225207     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2619511     Document Type: Article

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