Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) core promoter hairpin (Pr)

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Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) core promoter hairpin (Pr)
RF00502.jpg
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of TCV_Pr
Identifiers
SymbolTCV_Pr
RfamRF00502
Other data
RNA typeCis-reg
Domain(s)Viruses
SOSO:0000233
PDB structuresPDBe

The turnip crinkle virus (TCV) core promoter hairpin (Pr) is an RNA element located in the 3' UTR of the viral genome that is required for minus strand RNA synthesis.[1] The picture shown is not the TCV core promoter, but an upstream hairpin that is also required for replication of the virus.

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  1. ^ McCormack JC, Simon AE (July 2004). "Biased hypermutagenesis associated with mutations in an untranslated hairpin of an RNA virus". Journal of Virology. 78 (14): 7813–7817. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.14.7813-7817.2004. PMC 434097. PMID 15220455.

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