Human rhinovirus internal cis-acting regulatory element (CRE) is
a
CRE from the human
rhinovirus
The rhinovirus (from the grc, ῥίς, rhis "nose", , romanized: "of the nose", and the la, vīrus) is the most common viral infectious agent in humans and is the predominant cause of the common cold. Rhinovirus infection proliferates in tem ...
es. The CRE is located within the genome segment encoding the
capsid
A capsid is the protein shell of a virus, enclosing its genetic material. It consists of several oligomeric (repeating) structural subunits made of protein called protomers. The observable 3-dimensional morphological subunits, which may or ma ...
proteins so is found in a protein coding region. The element is essential for efficient
viral replication and it has been suggested that the CRE is required for initiation of minus-strand
RNA synthesis.
See also
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Human parechovirus 1 (HPeV1) cis regulatory element (CRE)
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Rotavirus cis-acting replication element (CRE)
References
External links
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Cis-regulatory RNA elements
Enteroviruses
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