| Literature DB >> 25253891 |
Mounir Georges AbouHaidar1, Srividhya Venkataraman2, Ashkan Golshani3, Bolin Liu2, Tauqeer Ahmad2.
Abstract
The highly structured (64% GC) covalently closed circular (CCC) RNA (220 nt) of the virusoid associated with rice yellow mottle virus codes for a 16-kDa highly basic protein using novel modalities for coding, translation, and gene expression. This CCC RNA is the smallest among all known viroids and virusoids and the only one that codes proteins. Its sequence possesses an internal ribosome entry site and is directly translated through two (or three) completely overlapping ORFs (shifting to a new reading frame at the end of each round). The initiation and termination codons overlap UGAUGA (underline highlights the initiation codon AUG within the combined initiation-termination sequence). Termination codons can be ignored to obtain larger read-through proteins. This circular RNA with no noncoding sequences is a unique natural supercompact "nanogenome."Entities:
Keywords: circular RNA translation; hammerhead ribozyme; leaky termination codons; sobemovirus
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25253891 PMCID: PMC4209996 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402814111
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205