Analysis of the RNA chaperoning activity of the hepatitis C virus core protein on the conserved 3′X region of the viral genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2540-2553

  Sharma, Kamal Kant ^a   De Rocquigny, Hugues ^a   Darlix, Jean Luc ^a   Lavergne, Jean Pierre ^b   Pénin, Franois ^b   Lessinger, Jean Marc ^a   Mély, Yves ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CORE PROTEIN; GENOMIC RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PALINDROMIC DNA; PEPTIDE F; PHOSPHATE; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84859343415     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1140     Document Type: Article

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