Sequencing the cap-snatching repertoire of H1N1 influenza provides insight into the mechanism of viral transcription initiation

The influenza polymerase cleaves host RNAs ~10-13 nucleotides downstream of their 5' ends and uses this capped fragment to prime viral mRNA synthesis. To better understand this process of cap snatching, we used high-throughput sequencing to determine the 5' ends of A/WSN/33 (H1N1) influenz...

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Main Authors: Koppstein, David Neal Pira (Contributor), Bartel, David (Contributor), Ashour, Joseph (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, 2015-05-29T12:37:01Z.
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