A minimal avian retroviral packaging sequence has a complex structure

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作者
Banks, JD
Yeo, A
Green, K
Cepeda, F
Linial, ML [1 ]
机构
[1] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, Div Basic Sci, Seattle, WA 98109 USA
[2] Univ Washington, Dept Microbiol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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10.1128/JVI.72.7.6190-6194.1998
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
We have defined a 160-nucleotide region, M psi, from the 5' leader region of the Rous sarcoma virus genome that is sufficient to direct the packaging of a heterologous RNA. M psi contains the putative O3 stem structure that has previously been shown, and that has been confirmed in this study, to be important for the efficient packaging of avian leukosis-sarcoma virus RNA. Analyses of several O3 stem mutants revealed that other regions within M psi can interfere with the proper folding of altered sequences which are predicted to form a wild-type O3 stem.
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页码:6190 / 6194
页数:5
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