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HCV IRES manipulates the ribosome to promote the switch from translation initiation to elongation.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Feb 2013
Filbin Megan E, Vollmar Breanna S, Shi Dan, Gonen Tamir, Kieft Jeffrey S
Abstract excerpt
The internal ribosome entry site (IRES) of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) drives noncanonical initiation of protein synthesis necessary for viral replication. Functional studies of the HCV IRES have focused on 80S ribosome formation but have not explored its role after the 80S ribosome is poised at the start codon. Here, we report that mutations of an IRES domain that docks in the 40S subunit's decoding groove cause...
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