Single-molecule FRET reveals a corkscrew RNA structure for the polymerase-bound influenza virus promoter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 32, 2014, Pages

  Tomescu, Alexandra I ^a   Robb, Nicole C ^a   Hengrung, Narin ^b,c   Fodor, Ervin ^b   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INSECT CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H3N2 SUBTYPE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84905974849     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406056111     Document Type: Article

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