Self‐Cleaving Ribozymes of Hepatitis Delta Virus RNA

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Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a small single-stranded RNA satellite of hepatitis B virus. Although it is a human pathogen, it shares a number of features with a subset of the small plant satellite RNA viruses, including self-cleaving sequences in the genomic and antigenomic sequences of the viral RNA. The self-cleaving sequence is critical to viral replication and is thought to function as a ribozyme in vivo to...

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