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Mechanistic role of structurally dynamic regions in Dicistroviridae IGR IRESs.
Journal of molecular biology - 8 Jan 2010
Pfingsten Jennifer S, Castile Alice E, Kieft Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
Dicistroviridae intergenic region (IGR) internal ribosome entry site(s) (IRES) RNAs drive a cap-independent pathway of translation initiation, recruiting both small and large ribosomal subunits to viral RNA without the use of any canonical translation initiation factors. This ability is conferred by the folded three-dimensional structure of the IRES RNA, which has been solved by X-ray crystallography. Here, we...
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