Viral RNAs are unusually compact

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Gopal, Ajaykumar ^a   Egecioglu, Defne E ^a   Yoffe, Aron M ^a   Ben Shaul, Avinoam ^b   Rao, Ayala L N ^c   Knobler, Charles M ^a   Gelbart, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; ENCAPSULATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RNA FOLDING; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; BASE PAIRING; BROMOVIRUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; LEVIVIRUS; RNA VIRUS; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TOGAVIRUS;

BASE PAIRING; BROMOVIRUS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENOME, VIRAL; LEVIVIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TOGAVIRIDAE; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84907060697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105875     Document Type: Article

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