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Repair and polyadenylation of a naturally occurring hepatitis C virus 3' nontranslated region-shorter variant in selectable replicon cell lines.
Journal of virology - 1 May 2006
van Leeuwen Hans C, Liefhebber Jolanda M P, Spaan Willy J M
Abstract excerpt
The 3' nontranslated region (NTR) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome is highly conserved and contains specific cis-acting RNA motifs that are essential in directing the viral replication machinery to initiate at the correct 3' end of the viral genome. Since the ends of viral genomes may be damaged by cellular RNases, preventing the initiation of viral RNA replication, stable RNA hairpin structures in the 3'...
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