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Adaptive Changes in Alphavirus mRNA Translation Allowed Colonization of Vertebrate Hosts
4 Jul 2012
Abstract excerpt
Members of the Alphavirus genus are arboviruses that alternate replication in mosquitoes and vertebrate hosts. In vertebrate cells, the alphavirus resists the activation of antiviral RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) by the presence of a prominent RNA structure (downstream loop [DLP]) located in viral 26S transcripts, which allows an eIF2-independent translation initiation of these mRNAs. This article shows that...
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