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MicroRNA 122 Affects both the Initiation and the Maintenance of Hepatitis C Virus Infections.
Journal of virology - 23 Feb 2022
Panigrahi Mamata, Thibault Patricia A, Wilson Joyce A
Abstract excerpt
A liver-specific microRNA, miR-122, anneals to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genomic 5' terminus and is essential for virus replication in cell culture. However, bicistronic HCV replicons and full-length RNAs with specific mutations in the 5' untranslated region (UTR) can replicate, albeit to low levels, without miR-122. In this study, we have identified that HCV RNAs lacking the structural gene region or having...
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