| Literature DB >> 17428856 |
Shih-Cheng Chen1, Erwin van den Born, Sjoerd H E van den Worm, Cornelis W A Pleij, Eric J Snijder, René C L Olsthoorn.
Abstract
A 190-nucleotide (nt) packaging signal (PS) located in the 3' end of open reading frame 1b in the mouse hepatitis virus, a group IIa coronavirus, was previously postulated to direct genome RNA packaging. Based on phylogenetic data and structure probing, we have identified a 95-nt hairpin within the 190-nt PS domain which is conserved in all group IIa coronaviruses but not in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (group IIb), group I coronaviruses, or group III coronaviruses. The hairpin is composed of six copies of a repeating structural subunit that consists of 2-nt bulges and 5-bp stems. We propose that repeating AA bulges are characteristic features of group IIa PSs.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17428856 PMCID: PMC1900089 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02231-06
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103