Base Pairing between Hepatitis C Virus RNA and microrna 122 3' of its seed sequence is essential for genome stabilization and production of infectious virus

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 7372-7383

  Shimakami, Tetsuro ^a,c   Yamane, Daisuke ^a   Welsch, Christoph ^a,d   Hensley, Lucinda ^a   Jangra, Rohit K ^b   Lemon, Stanley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; MICRORNA 122; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; UPREGULATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEPACIVIRUS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84864147817     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00513-12     Document Type: Article

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