Article
Genetic analysis of internal ribosomal entry site on hepatitis C virus RNA: implication for involvement of the highly ordered structure and cell type-specific transacting factors.
Virology - 23 Jun 1997
Kamoshita N, Tsukiyama-Kohara K, Kohara M, Nomoto A
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) carries an internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) within the 5' portion of the RNA. To identify structures that influence efficiency of the translation initiation, relative activities of modified IRESs were examined by using engineered bicistronic mRNAs, between the two cist...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Cell-Free System
- Chromosome Mapping
- Genotype
- HeLa Cells
- Hepacivirus
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- RNA, Viral
- Recombination, Genetic