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Global shape mimicry of tRNA within a viral internal ribosome entry site mediates translational reading frame selection.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 24 Nov 2015
Au Hilda H, Cornilescu Gabriel, Mouzakis Kathryn D, Ren Qian, Burke Jordan E, Lee Seonghoon, Butcher Samuel E, Jan Eric
Abstract excerpt
The dicistrovirus intergenic region internal ribosome entry site (IRES) adopts a triple-pseudoknotted RNA structure and occupies the core ribosomal E, P, and A sites to directly recruit the ribosome and initiate translation at a non-AUG codon. A subset of dicistrovirus IRESs directs translation in the 0 and +1 frames to produce the viral structural proteins and a +1 overlapping open reading frame called ORFx,...
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