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. 1997 Oct;71(10):7984–7989. doi: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.7984-7989.1997

Rice tungro bacilliform virus open reading frames II and III are translated from polycistronic pregenomic RNA by leaky scanning.

J Fütterer 1, H M Rothnie 1, T Hohn 1, I Potrykus 1
PMCID: PMC192159  PMID: 9311892

Abstract

Posttranscriptional components of the gene expression mechanism of rice tungro bacilliform virus (RTBV) were studied in transiently transfected protoplasts. RTBV translates several open reading frames from a polycistronic mRNA by leaky scanning. This mechanism is supported by the particular sequence features of the corresponding genome region and does not require a virus-encoded transactivator.

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