Structure of influenza A polymerase bound to the viral RNA promoter

Nature

Volumn 516, Issue 7531, 2014, Pages 355-360

  Pflug, Alexander ^a,b   Guilligay, Delphine ^a,b   Reich, Stefan ^a,b   Cusack, Stephen ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

BAT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG; GENOME; INFLUENZA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOLVENT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; INFLUENZA A; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYMOLOGY; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84922257981     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14008     Document Type: Article

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