The structurally disordered paramyxovirus nucleocapsid protein tail domain is a regulator of the mRNA transcription gradient

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Cox, Robert M ^a   Krumm, Stefanie A ^a   Thakkar, Vidhi D ^a   Sohn, Maximilian ^b   Plemper, Richard K ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; BINS; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; VIRUSES;

EFFICIENT INTERACTION; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; LINKER SCANNING MUTAGENESIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION ELEMENT; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS; RNA-DEPENDENT RNA POLYMERASE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MEASLES VIRUS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MEASLES VIRUS; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PROTEIN DOMAINS; RNA REPLICASE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 85020295908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602350     Document Type: Article

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