Article
Cross-species functionality of pararetroviral elements driving ribosome shunting.
PloS one - 20 Feb 2008
Pooggin Mikhail M, Fütterer Johannes, Hohn Thomas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) and Rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) belong to distinct genera of pararetroviruses infecting dicot and monocot plants, respectively. In both viruses, polycistronic translation of pregenomic (pg) RNA is initiated by shunting ribosomes that bypass a large region of the pgRNA leader with several short (s)ORFs and a stable stem-loop structure. The shunt requires...
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