Towards a structural understanding of RNA synthesis by negative strand RNA viral polymerases

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 75-84

  Reguera, Juan ^a   Gerlach, Piotr ^a   Cusack, Stephen ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAVIPIRAVIR; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; CAPPED RNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; PROTEIN BINDING; VIRUS RNA;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REOVIRIDAE; REVIEW; RNA CAPPING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VESICULOVIRUS; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA VIRUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BINDING SITES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RNA CAPS; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, VIRAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84956708587     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2016.01.002     Document Type: Review

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