Sequencing the cap-snatching repertoire of H1N1 influenza provides insight into the mechanism of viral transcription initiation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5052-5064

  Koppstein, David ^a,b,c   Ashour, Joseph ^a,b,d   Bartel, David P ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PURINE; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS RNA; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CAPPED RNA; GUANOSINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CAPPING; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; CELL LINE; GUANOSINE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; RNA CAPS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEOLAR; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84931275587     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv333     Document Type: Article

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