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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 74, 期 22, 页码 10827-10833出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.74.22.10827-10833.2000
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA translation initiation is dependent on the presence of an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) that is found mostly in its 5' untranslated region (5' UTR). While exhibiting the most highly conserved sequence within the genome, the 5' UTR accumulates small differences, which may be of biological and clinical importance, In this study, using a bicistronic dual luciferase expression system,,ve have examined the sequence of 5' UTRs from quasispecies characterized in the serum of a patient chronically infected with HCV genotype la and its corresponding translational activity. Sequence heterogeneity between IRES elements led to important changes in their translation efficiency both in vitro and in different cell cultures lines, implying that interactions of RNA with related transacting factors may vary according to cell type. These data suggest that variants occasionally carried by the serum prior to reinfection could be selected toward different compartments of the same infected organism, thus favoring the hypothesis of HCV multiple tropism.
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