Potato virus X cis-acting regulatory element explained

Potato virus X cis-acting regulatory element
Symbol:	PVX_3
Altsymbols:	PVX_cis-reg
Rfam:	RF00184
Rna Type:	Cis-reg
Tax Domain:	Viruses

The Potato virus X cis-acting regulatory element is a cis-acting regulatory element found in the 3' UTR of the Potato virus X genome. This element has been found to be required for minus strand RNA accumulation and is essential for efficient viral replication.^[1]

See also

• Poxvirus AX element late mRNA cis-regulatory element

Notes and References

1. Pillai-Nair N, Kim KH, Hemenway C . Cis-acting regulatory elements in the potato virus X 3' non-translated region differentially affect minus-strand and plus-strand RNA accumulation . Journal of Molecular Biology . 326 . 3 . 701–720 . February 2003 . 12581634 . 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01369-4 . 7126608 .