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Sequence and secondary structure requirements in a highly conserved element for foot-and-mouth disease virus internal ribosome entry site activity and eIF4G binding.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Sept 2004
Bassili Gergis, Tzima Eleni, Song Yutong, Saleh Lanja, Ochs Kerstin, Niepmann Michael
Abstract excerpt
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) and other picornaviruses initiate translation of their positive-strand RNA genomes at the highly structured internal ribosome entry site (IRES), which mediates ribosome recruitment to an internal site of the virus RNA. This process is facilitated by eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs), such as eIF4G and eIF4B. In the eIF4G-binding site, a characteristic,...
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