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Assessment of Immunologically Relevant Dynamic Tertiary Structural Features of the HIV-1 V3 Loop Crown R2 Sequence by ab initio Folding
Published on: September 15, 2010
The solution structure of coronaviral stem-loop 2 (SL2) reveals a canonical CUYG tetraloop fold
Chul Won Lee1, Lichun Li, David P Giedroc
1Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
Abstract:
The transcription and replication of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is regulated by specific viral genome sequences within 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (5'-UTR and 3'-UTR). Here we report the solution structure of 5'-UTR derived stem-loop 2 (SL2) of SARS-CoV determined by NMR spectroscopy. The highly conserved pentaloop of SL2 is stacked on 5-bp stem and adopts a canonical CUYG tetraloop fold with the 3' nucleotide (U51) flipped out of the stack. The significance of this structure in the context of a previous mutagenesis analysis of SL2 function in replication of the related group 2 coronavirus, mouse hepatitis virus, is discussed.
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