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A unique strategy for mRNA cap methylation used by vesicular stomatitis virus.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 May 2006
Li Jianrong, Wang Jennifer T, Whelan Sean P J
Abstract excerpt
Nonsegmented negative-sense (nsNS) RNA viruses typically replicate within the host cell cytoplasm and do not have access to the host mRNA capping machinery. These viruses have evolved a unique mechanism for mRNA cap formation in that the guanylyltransferase transfers GDP rather than GMP onto the 5' end of the RNA. Working with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a prototype nsNS RNA virus, we now provide genetic...
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