End-to-end crosstalk within the hepatitis C virus genome mediates the conformational switch of the 30X-tail region

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 567-582

  Romero Lopez, Cristina ^a   Barroso DelJesus, Alicia ^a   Garcia 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

VIRUS RNA; GENOMIC RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CIS ACTING REPLICATING ELEMENT; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMER LINKAGE SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA FOLDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; 3'X TAIL REGION; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; RNA RNA INTERACTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84891779561     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt841     Document Type: Article

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