Packaging signals in single-stranded RNA viruses: Nature's alternative to a purely electrostatic assembly mechanism

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 277-287

  Stockley, Peter G ^a   Twarock, Reidun ^b   Bakker, Saskia E ^d   Barker, Amy M ^a   Borodavka, Alexander ^a   Dykeman, Eric ^b   Ford, Robert J ^a   Pearson, Arwen R ^a   Phillips, Simon E V ^c   Ranson, Neil A ^a   Tuma, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly models; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Packaging signals; RNA protein interactions; Virus assembly mechanism

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA PACKAGING; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOMETRY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA VIRUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE STRANDED RNA VIRUS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME;

MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84878677042     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: 15730689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-013-9313-0     Document Type: Article

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