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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 79-85Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2020.08.007
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- N.I.H. [R01 AI069000, R37 AI47365]
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This review article focuses on how pathogenic RNA viruses utilize host biochemical machineries and specific RNA elements in the untranslated regions to achieve viral infection cycles and enhance viral fitness.
Pathogenic RNA viruses continue to emerge owing to their rapid evolutionary rates. The family of the Flaviviridae contains enveloped, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA viruses that include mosquito borne viruses such as dengue virus and the blood-borne hepatitis C virus. Upon infection, the genomic viral RNA needs to first compete with a sea of host mRNAs for host ribosomes that synthesize the viral proteins. Then, the positivesense template needs to be amplified and packaged into newly assembled virions. To accomplish these tasks, the virus subverts several biochemical machineries from the host. The participation of specific structures in the viral RNA mediates specific RNA-RNA and RNA-protein interactions that dictate many viral subversion strategies. In this review, we shall focus on the various mechanisms by which RNA elements in the dengue virus and hepatitis C virus untranslated regions aid the viral infectious cycle and contribute to viral fitness.
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