The Potato virus X cis-acting regulatory element is a
cis-acting regulatory element found in the 3' UTR of the
Potato virus X
Potato virus X (PVX) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family ''Alphaflexiviridae'' and the order '' Tymovirales''.
PVX is found mainly in potatoes and is only transmitted mechanically. There are no insect or fungal vectors for this virus. This ...
genome
In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, 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 g ...
. This element has been found to be required for minus strand RNA accumulation and is essential for efficient viral replication.
See also
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Poxvirus AX element late mRNA ''cis''-regulatory element
References
External links
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Cis-regulatory RNA elements
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