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Regulation of the sequential processing of Semliki Forest virus replicase polyprotein.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 24 Oct 2003
Vasiljeva Lidia, Merits Andres, Golubtsov Andrey, Sizemskaja Valeria, Kääriäinen Leevi, Ahola Tero
Abstract excerpt
The replication of most positive-strand RNA viruses and retroviruses is regulated by proteolytic processing. Alphavirus replicase proteins are synthesized as a polyprotein, called P1234, which is cleaved into nsP1, nsP2, nsP3, and nsP4 by the carboxyl-terminal protease domain of nsP2. The cleavage intermediate P123+nsP4 synthesizes minus-strand copies of the viral RNA genome, whereas the completely processed...
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