Gammaretrovirus mRNA expression is mediated by a novel, bipartite post-transcriptional regulatory element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 11092-11106

  Pilkington, Guy R ^a   Purzycka, Katarzyna J ^a,b   Bear, Jenifer ^a   Le Grice, Stuart F J ^a   Felber, Barbara K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; GAG PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAG GENE; GAMMARETROVIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; XENOTROPIC MULV RELATED VIRUS;

GAG GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE PRODUCTS, GAG; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; XENOTROPIC MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS-RELATED VIRUS;

EID: 84936790722     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku798     Document Type: Article

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