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Coronavirus nonstructural protein 16 is a cap-0 binding enzyme possessing (nucleoside-2'O)-methyltransferase activity.
Journal of virology - 1 Aug 2008
Decroly Etienne, Imbert Isabelle, Coutard Bruno, Bouvet Mickaël, Selisko Barbara, Alvarez Karine, Gorbalenya Alexander E, Snijder Eric J, Canard Bruno
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The coronavirus family of positive-strand RNA viruses includes important pathogens of livestock, companion animals, and humans, including the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus that was responsible for a worldwide outbreak in 2003. The unusually complex coronavirus replicase/transcriptase is comprised of 15 or 16 virus-specific subunits that are autoproteolytically derived from two large polyproteins....
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