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Encapsidation of turnip crinkle virus is defined by a specific packaging signal and RNA size.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 1997
Qu F, Morris T J
Abstract excerpt
A protoplast infection assay has been used to reliably examine the viral RNA encapsidation of turnip crinkle virus (TCV). Analysis of the encapsidation of various mutant viral RNAs revealed that a 186-nucleotide (nt) region at the 3' end of the coat protein (CP) gene, with a bulged hairpin loop of 28 nt as its most essential element, was indispensable for TCV RNA encapsidation. When RNA fragments containing the...
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