A Viral mRNA Motif at the 3′-Untranslated Region that Confers Translatability in a Cell-Specific Manner. Implications for Virus Evolution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Garcia Moreno, Manuel ^a   Sanz, Miguel Angel ^a   Carrasco, Luis ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, VIRAL; MICE; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84954449330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19217     Document Type: Article

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