Article
Base-pairing promotes leader selection to prime in vitro influenza genome transcription.
Virology - 5 Jan 2011
Geerts-Dimitriadou Christina, Zwart Mark P, Goldbach Rob, Kormelink Richard
Abstract excerpt
The requirements for alignment of capped leader sequences along the viral genome during influenza transcription initiation (cap-snatching) have long been an enigma. In this study, competition experiments using an in vitro transcription assay revealed that influenza virus transcriptase prefers leader sequences with base complementarity to the 3'-ultimate residues of the viral template, 10 or 11 nt from the 5' cap....
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