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Effects of mutations of the initiation nucleotides on hepatitis C virus RNA replication in the cell.
Journal of virology - 1 Apr 2004
Cai Zhaohui, Liang T Jake, Luo Guangxiang
Abstract excerpt
Replication of nearly all RNA viruses depends on a virus-encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Our earlier work found that purified recombinant hepatitis C virus (HCV) RdRp (NS5B) was able to initiate RNA synthesis de novo by using purine (A and G) but not pyrimidine (C and U) nucleotides (G. Luo et al., J. Virol. 74:851-863, 2000). For most human RNA viruses, the initiation nucleotides of both positive-...
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