Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6143566 | Virus Research | 2009 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The HCV IRES is a highly structured RNA which mediates cap-independent translation initiation in higher eukaryotes. This function is encoded in conserved structural motifs in the two major domains of HCV and HCV-like IRESs, which play crucial and distinct roles along the initiation pathway. In this review, I discuss structural features of IRES domains and how these RNA motifs function as RNA-based initiation factors to form 48S initiation complexes and 80S ribosomes with only a subset of canonical, protein-based eukaryotic initiation factors.
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Authors
Peter J. Lukavsky,