Secondary structure of a conserved domain in an intron of influenza A M1 mRNA

Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 32, 2014, Pages 5236-5248

  Jiang, Tian ^a   Kennedy, Scott D ^b   Moss, Walter N ^c   Kierzek, Elzbieta ^d   Turner, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL CULTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; VIRUSES;

ESSENTIAL PROTEINS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MULTI-BRANCH STRUCTURES; MULTIPLE REGIONS; OPTICAL MELTING CURVE; RNA STRUCTURES; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL MAPPING;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN M2; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN M1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTRON; MELTING POINT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INTRONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84906228043     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi500611j     Document Type: Article

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