The zinc finger antiviral protein directly binds to specific viral mRNAs through the CCCH zinc finger motifs

Journal of Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 12781-12787

  Guo, Xuemin ^a,b   Carroll, John William N ^c   MacDonald, Margaret R ^c   Goff, Stephen P ^d   Gao, Guangxia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS VECTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLONEY LEUKEMIA ONCOVIRUS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SINDBIS VIRUS; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; MOLONEY MURINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SINDBIS VIRUS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 8644267555     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.78.23.12781-12787.2004     Document Type: Article

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