Cryo-EM Structure of Influenza Virus RNA Polymerase Complex at 4.3Å Resolution

Molecular Cell

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 925-935

  Chang, Shenghai ^a   Sun, Dapeng ^a   Liang, Huanhuan ^a   Wang, Jia ^b   Li, Jun ^a   Guo, Lu ^a   Wang, Xiangli ^a   Guan, Chengcheng ^a   Boruah, Bhargavi M ^a   Yuan, Lingmin ^a   Feng, Feng ^a   Yang, Mingrui ^a   Wang, Lulan ^e,f   Wang, Yao ^e,f   Wojdyla, Justyna ^c   Li, Lanjuan ^d   Wang, Jiawei ^b   Wang, Meitian ^c   Cheng, Genhong ^e,f   Wang, Hong Wei ^b   Liu, Yingfang ^a,d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DIMER; OLIGOMER; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TETRAMER; VIRUS RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIROGENESIS; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RNA REPLICASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84924029463     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.12.031     Document Type: Article

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