Sequencing of a tick-borne encephalitis virus from ixodes ricinus reveals a thermosensitive rna switch significant for virus propagation in ectothermic arthropods

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 649-658

  Elväng, Annelie ^a   Melik, Wessam ^a,b   Bertrand, Yann ^a   Lönn, Mikael ^a   Johansson, Magnus ^a  

^a School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

conserved secondary RNA structures in the 3 UTR; genome of Swedish TBEV; riboswitch; RNA thermosensor

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; IXODES RICINUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

ANIMALS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; IXODES; MICE; RNA, VIRAL; TEMPERATURE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVIVIRUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MUS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 79959411565     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0105     Document Type: Article

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