Hepatitis C virus stem-loop VII

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Hepatitis C virus stem-loop VII
Template:Abbreviation
Type: Cis-reg;
2° structure: Predicted; RNAalifold; Griffiths-Jones S
Seed alignment: PubMed
Avg length: 65.0 nucleotides
Avg identity: 78%

Hepatitis C virus stem-loop VII is a regulatory element found in the coding region of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene, NS5B. The structure is important (but not essential) for colony formation, though its exact function and mechanism are unknown [1].

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  1. ^ Lee, H; Shin H, Wimmer E, Paul AV (2004). "Cis-acting RNA signals in the NS5B C-terminal coding sequence of the hepatitis C virus genome". J Virol 78: 10865–10877. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.20.10865-10877.2004. PMID 15452207. 

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