Self-ligating RNA sequences on the antigenome of human hepatitis delta virus.
A 179-base fragment of RNA from the 1,679-base antigenome of hepatitis delta virus can not only self-cleave but, when the ends of the resultant fragments are brought into apposition by base pairing to another RNA, also self-ligate. Thus, processing events needed for genome replication in vivo may be strictly RNA mediated.
Sharmeen
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Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111.
Kuo
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Taylor
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D003698:Hepatitis Delta Virus / Q000235:genetics*; D012323:RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D014779:Virus Replication
D012367:RNA, Viral