The Enterovirus 5′ cloverleaf cis-acting replication element is an
RNA element found in the
5′ UTR of Enterovirus
genomes
A genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes protein-coding genes and non-coding genes, other functional regions of the genome such as ...
. The element has a cloverleaf like secondary structure and is known to be a multifunctional cis-acting replication element (CRE), required for the initiation of negative strand
RNA synthesis
Transcription is the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA for the purpose of gene expression. Some segments of DNA are transcribed into RNA molecules that can encode proteins, called messenger RNA (mRNA). Other segments of DNA are transc ...
.
See also
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Enteroviral 3′ UTR element
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Enterovirus cis-acting replication element
References
External links
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Cis-regulatory RNA elements
Enteroviruses
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