University Of Hertfordshire: Research Cracks The Code
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers, including Dr Robert Coutts, Research Fellow from the School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, have cracked a code that governs infections caused by simple, single-stranded RNA viruses similar in many respects to viruses that cause the common cold, polio and the winter vomiting norovirus infections.
Until now, scientists had not noticed the code, which had been hidden in plain sight in the sequence of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) that makes up this type of viral genome.
The molecular details of how these viruses self-assemble protective protein containers around their cognate genomes in a specific and efficient manner have been revealed and illustrate multiple contacts between coat proteins and dispersed packaging signals in the viral genome.
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Until now, scientists had not noticed the code, which had been hidden in plain sight in the sequence of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) that makes up this type of viral genome.
The molecular details of how these viruses self-assemble protective protein containers around their cognate genomes in a specific and efficient manner have been revealed and illustrate multiple contacts between coat proteins and dispersed packaging signals in the viral genome.
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