Single-molecule FRET reveals the pre-initiation and initiation conformations of influenza virus promoter RNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 10304-10315

  Robb, Nicole C ^a   Te Velthuis, Aartjan J W ^a,b   Wieneke, Ralph ^c   Tamṕe, Robert ^c   Cordes, Thorben ^d   Fodor, Ervin ^b   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFLUENZA VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; SINGLE MOLECULE FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; VIRUS REPLICATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETICS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85016161732     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw884     Document Type: Article

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