The folding of the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site depends on the 3′-end of the viral genome

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 11697-11713

  Romero López, Cristina ^a   Barroso DelJesus, Alicia ^a   García Sacristán, Ana ^b,c   Briones, Carlos ^b,c   Berzal Herranz, Alfredo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DIMETHYL SULFATE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSLATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPACIVIRUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA, VIRAL; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84871192094     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks927     Document Type: Article

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