Hepatitis C virus 3'X element

The Hepatitis C virus 3'X element is an RNA element which contains three stem-loop structures that are essential for replication.[1][2][3]

Hepatitis C virus 3'X element
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of HCV_X3
Identifiers
SymbolHCV_X3
RfamRF00481
Other data
RNA typeCis-reg
Domain(s)Viruses
SO0000233
PDB structuresPDBe

See also

References

  1. Lee H, Shin H, Wimmer E, Paul AV (October 2004). "cis-acting RNA signals in the NS5B C-terminal coding sequence of the hepatitis C virus genome". Journal of Virology. 78 (20): 10865–10877. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.20.10865-10877.2004. PMC 521798. PMID 15452207.
  2. Yi M, Lemon SM (March 2003). "3' nontranslated RNA signals required for replication of hepatitis C virus RNA". Journal of Virology. 77 (6): 3557–3568. doi:10.1128/JVI.77.6.3557-3568.2003. PMC 149512. PMID 12610131.
  3. Yi M, Lemon SM (March 2003). "Structure-function analysis of the 3' stem-loop of hepatitis C virus genomic RNA and its role in viral RNA replication". RNA. 9 (3): 331–345. doi:10.1261/rna.2144203. PMC 1370400. PMID 12592007.
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