Respiratory syncytial virus polymerase can initiate transcription from position 3 of the leader promoter

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3196-3207

  Tremaglio, Chadene Z ^a   Noton, Sarah L ^a   Deflubé, Laure R ^a   Fearns, Rachel ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEADER PROMOTER REGION; NONHUMAN; NS1 GENE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL LINE; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84874673020     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02862-12     Document Type: Article

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