Sequence analysis reveals a conserved extension in the capping enzyme of the alphavirus supergroup, and a homologous domain in nodaviruses

Biology Direct

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ahola, Tero ^a   Karlin, David G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Henry Wellcome Building of Genomic Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alphavirus; Amphipathic alpha helix; Bromovirus; Capping; Chikungunya virus; Guanylyltransferase; Hepatitis E virus; Homology detection; Methyltransferase; Nodavirus; Protein sequence analysis; Sindbis virus; Viral replication factory

Indexed keywords

ALPHAVIRUS; BROMOVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; EUKARYOTA; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MAMMALIA; NODAVIRIDAE; RUBELLA VIRUS; SINDBIS VIRUS; VALERIANA;

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; GUANYLYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; VIRAL PROTEIN;

ALPHAVIRUS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RUBELLA VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE DELETION; GENES, VIRAL; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RUBELLA VIRUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84926610921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13062-015-0050-0     Document Type: Article

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