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SUBMITTER: Muhs M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3130280 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Muhs Margarita M Yamamoto Hiroshi H Ismer Jochen J Takaku Hiroaki H Nashimoto Masayuki M Uchiumi Toshio T Nakashima Nobuhiko N Mielke Thorsten T Hildebrand Peter W PW Nierhaus Knud H KH Spahn Christian M T CM
Nucleic acids research 20110304 12
Some viruses exploit internal initiation for their propagation in the host cell. This type of initiation is facilitated by structured elements (internal ribosome entry site, IRES) upstream of the initiator AUG and requires only a reduced number of canonical initiation factors. An important example are IRES of the virus family Dicistroviridae that bind to the inter-subunit side of the small ribosomal 40S subunit and lead to the formation of elongation-competent 80S ribosomes without the help of a ...[more]