Identification of cis-acting nucleotides and a structural feature in west nile virus 3′-terminus RNA that facilitate viral minus strand RNA synthesis

Journal of Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7622-7636

  Davis, William G ^a   Basu, Mausumi ^a   Elrod, Elizabeth J ^a   Germann, Markus W ^a   Brinton, Margo A ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' TERMINAL NUCLEOTIDE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; GENOMIC RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN EEF1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE DELETION; GENE SWITCHING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CELL LINE; CRICETINAE; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84880358454     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00212-13     Document Type: Article

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