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Mouse Ifit1b is a cap1-RNA-binding protein that inhibits mouse coronavirus translation and is regulated by complexing with Ifit1c.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 18 Dec 2020
Mears Harriet V, Sweeney Trevor R
Abstract excerpt
Knockout mouse models have been extensively used to study the antiviral activity of IFIT (interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats). Human IFIT1 binds to cap0 (m7GpppN) RNA, which lacks methylation on the first and second cap-proximal nucleotides (cap1, m7GpppNm, and cap2, m7GpppNmNm, respectively). These modifications are signatures of "self" in higher eukaryotes, whereas unmodified cap0-RNA is...
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