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Evidence of reciprocal tertiary interactions between conserved motifs involved in organizing RNA structure essential for internal initiation of translation.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Feb 2006
Fernández-Miragall Olga, Ramos Ricardo, Ramajo Jorge, Martínez-Salas Encarnación
Abstract excerpt
Internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements consist of highly structured RNA regions that determine internal initiation of translation. We have previously shown that the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) IRES contains a GNRA tetraloop spanning residues G178UAA181. Here we show that tertiary RNA interactions dependent on the GNRA motif determine the structural organization of the central domain. By using...
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