Functional long-range RNA-RNA interactions in positive-strand RNA viruses

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 493-504

  Nicholson, Beth L ^a   White, K Andrew ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

BASE PAIRING; CORONAVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; NODAVIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; RNA VIRUS; STOP CODON; TOMBUSVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; GENE STRUCTURE; LONG RANGE RNA RNA INTERACTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NODAVIRIDAE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; TOMBUSVIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84902507049     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3288     Document Type: Review

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