RNA structural elements of hepatitis C virus controlling viral RNA translation and the implications for viral pathogenesis

Viruses

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2233-2250

  Piñeiro, David ^a   Martinez Salas, Encarnación ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; Host factors; IRES; RNA structural elements; Translation control

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISEASE COURSE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPLICATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INDUCTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL, EUKARYOTIC; RNA, VIRAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84868129170     PISSN: 19994915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/v4102233     Document Type: Review

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