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A 5'UTR-spliced mRNA isoform is specialized for enhanced HIV-2 gag translation.
Journal of molecular biology - 14 Aug 2009
Strong Christy L, Lanchy Jean-Marc, Dieng-Sarr Abdoulaye, Kanki Phyllis J, Lodmell J Stephen
Abstract excerpt
Full-length unspliced genomic RNA plays critical roles in HIV replication, serving both as mRNA for the synthesis of the key viral polyproteins Gag and Gag-Pol and as genomic RNA for encapsidation into assembling viral particles. We show that a second gag mRNA species that differs from the genomic RNA molecule by the absence of an intron in the 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) is produced during HIV-2 replication...
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