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Rotavirus translation control protein takes RNA to heart
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Structure (London, England : 1993)
|February 13, 2002
Abstract:
Viruses commonly evolve distinct mechanisms to perform some of the same functions as cells. In the January 11 issue of Cell, Deo et al. describe the structure of rotavirus nonstructural protein 3 in complex with RNA, which explains how it acts as a functional homolog of cellular poly(A) binding protein to promote translation of the nonpolyadenylated rotavirus mRNAs.