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Mouse hepatitis virus stem-loop 4 functions as a spacer element required to drive subgenomic RNA synthesis.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2011
Yang Dong, Liu Pinghua, Giedroc David P, Leibowitz Julian
Abstract excerpt
The 5' 140 nucleotides of the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) are predicted to contain three secondary structures, stem-loop 1 (SL1), SL2, and SL4. SL1 and SL2 are required for subgenomic RNA synthesis. The current study focuses on SL4, which contains two base-paired regions, SL4a and SL4b. A series of reverse genetic experiments show that SL4a is not required to be base paired. Neither...
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