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A premature termination codon mutation at the C terminus of foamy virus Gag downregulates the levels of spliced pol mRNA.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2008
Lee Eun-Gyung, Kuppers Daniel, Horn Megan, Roy Jacqueline, May Cynthia, Linial Maxine L
Abstract excerpt
Foamy viruses (FV) comprise a subfamily of retroviruses. Orthoretroviruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1, synthesize Gag and Pol from unspliced genomic RNA. However, FV Pol is expressed from a spliced mRNA independently of Gag. FV pol splicing uses a 3' splice site located at the 3' end of gag, resulting in a shared exon between gag and pol. Previously, our laboratory showed that C-terminal Gag...
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