Hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element
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Hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element | |
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Identifiers | |
Symbol | HepE_CRE |
Rfam | RF00550 |
Other data | |
RNA type | Cis-reg |
Domain(s) | Viruses |
SO | SO:0000233 |
PDB structures | PDBe |
The hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element is an RNA element that is believed to be essential for "some step in gene expression".[1] The mutation of this element resulted in hepatitis E strains which were unable to infect rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Graff J, Nguyen H, Yu C, Elkins WR, St Claire M, Purcell RH, Emerson SU (June 2005). "The open reading frame 3 gene of hepatitis E virus contains a cis-reactive element and encodes a protein required for infection of macaques". Journal of Virology. 79 (11): 6680–6689. doi:10.1128/JVI.79.11.6680-6689.2005. PMC 1112134. PMID 15890906.