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Characterization of a cyanobacterial RNase P ribozyme recognition motif in the IRES of foot-and-mouth disease virus reveals a unique structural element.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jun 2007
Serrano Paula, Gomez Jordi, Martínez-Salas Encarnación
Abstract excerpt
Translation initiation driven by internal ribosome entry site (IRES) elements is dependent on the structural organization of the IRES region. Picornavirus IRES are organized in structural domains, in which the terminal stem-loops participate in functional RNA-protein interactions. However, the me...
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