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. 2012 Jul;93(Pt 7):1385–1409. doi: 10.1099/vir.0.042499-0

Table 2. Examples of known and suspected cases of non-AUG initiation.

Taxon Product Initiation codon References
Respirovirus – Sendai virus C′ (N-term. extension of C) ACG Curran & Kolakofsky (1988); Gupta & Patwardhan (1988)
Respirovirus – human parainfluenza virus 1 " GUG Boeck et al. (1992)
Murine leukemia gammaretrovirus Gag N-term. extension CUG Prats et al. (1989)
Soil-borne wheat mosaic furovirus and other furoviruses CP N-term. extension CUG Shirako (1998)
PanicovirusPanicum mosaic virus Second movement protein of carmovirus-like double gene block GUG Turina et al. (2000)
Panicovirus – cocksfoot mild mosaic virus " CUG Ziegler et al. (2009)
Machlomovirus – maize chlorotic mottle virus " CUG?
Pelargonium line pattern virus " GUG Castaño et al. (2009)
Pelargonium chlorotic ring pattern virus " GUG
Rosa rugosa leaf distortion virus " CUG
TGP carmovirus 3 " CUG Scheets et al. (2011)
TGP carmovirus 1 " CUG/ACG?
Allexiviruses and blackberry virus E TGB3 CUG? Kanyuka et al. (1992); Sabanadzovic et al. (2011)
Lily potexvirus X TGB3 ACG? Chen et al. (2005)
Strawberry mild yellow edge-associated potexvirus TGB1 CUG? Jelkmann et al. (1992)
Hibiscus chlorotic ringspot carmovirus p27 (N-term. extension of p25) CUG Koh et al. (2006)
Aquareovirus A, segment 7 ORF1 (FAST protein) CUG Racine et al. (2009)
Torovirus Predicted 30K protein CUG Firth & Atkins (2009)
Rice tungro bacilliform tungrovirus ORF I AUU Fütterer et al. (1996)