Biochemical and Genetic Studies of the Initiation of Human Rhinovirus 2 RNA Replication: Identification of a <i>cis</i> -Replicating Element in the Coding Sequence of 2A ^pro

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We have previously shown that the RNA polymerase 3D(pol) of human rhinovirus 2 (HRV2) catalyzes the covalent linkage of UMP to the terminal protein (VPg) using poly(A) as a template (K. Gerber, E. Wimmer, and A. V. Paul, J. Virol. 75:10969-10978, 2001). The products of this in vitro reaction are VPgpU, VPgpUpU, and VPg-poly(U), the 5' end of minus-strand RNA. In the present study we used an assay system developed...

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