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Structural architecture of an RNA that competitively inhibits RNase L.
RNA (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2012
Keel Amanda Y, Jha Babal Kant, Kieft Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
Activation of RNase L endonuclease activity is part of the mammalian innate immune response to viral infection. The poliovirus RNA genome contains a sequence in its protein-coding region that can act as a competitive inhibitor of RNase L. Mutation, sequence, and functional analysis of this competitive inhibitor RNA (ciRNA) revealed that its activity depends on specific sequences, showed that a loop-loop hairpin...
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