RNA structural constraints in the evolution of the influenza A virus genome NP segment

RNA Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 942-952

  Gultyaev, Alexander P ^a,b   Tsyganov Bodounov, Anton ^c,d   Spronken, MoniqueI J ^a   Van Der Kooij, Sander ^a,e   Fouchier, Ron A M ^a   Olsthoorn, René C L ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Illumina UK Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e BaseClear BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Influenza A virus; Mutual information; Negative sense RNA viruses; RNA pseudoknot; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; CORE PROTEIN; NP PROTEIN, INFLUENZA A VIRUS; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA FOLDING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DOG; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; MDCK CELL LINE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MADIN DARBY CANINE KIDNEY CELLS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA, VIRAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84907580481     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.29730     Document Type: Article

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