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A novel mechanism for inhibition of translation by pokeweed antiviral protein: depurination of the capped RNA template.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Mar 2000
Hudak K A, Wang P, Tumer N E
Abstract excerpt
Pokeweed antiviral protein (PAP) is known to inactivate ribosomes by removal of a specific adenine from the sarcin/ricin (S/R) loop of the large rRNA, thereby inhibiting translation. We demonstrate here that in addition to the previously identified adenine (A4324), PAP removes another adenine (A4321) and a guanine (G4323) from the eukaryotic large rRNA. Recent results indicate that the antiviral activity of PAP...
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