La arquitectura del transcriptoma del SARS-CoV-2

Dongwan Kim1, Joo-Yeon Lee2, Jeong-Sun Yang2

  • 1Center for RNA Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea; School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea.

Cell
|April 25, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio mapea el transcriptoma y el epitranscriptoma del SARS-CoV-2, revelando estructuras complejas de ARN y más de 40 sitios de modificación. Estos hallazgos ofrecen nuevos conocimientos sobre el virus

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