Analysis of the highly diverse gene borders in Ebola virus reveals a distinct mechanism of transcriptional Regulation

Journal of Virology

Volumn 88, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 12558-12571

  Brauburger, Kristina ^a,b   Boehmann, Yannik ^b,d   Tsuda, Yoshimi ^c,e   Hoenen, Thomas ^c   Olejnik, Judith ^a   Schümann, Michael ^b,f   Ebihara, Hideki ^c   Mühlberger, Elke ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Aix Marseille University IRD 190 Inserm 1207   (France)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f CSL BEHRING GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN; VP24 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBOLA VIRUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; VP24 GENE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; EBOLAVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; OVERLAPPING GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EBOLAVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, OVERLAPPING; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84907984618     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01863-14     Document Type: Article

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