Potato virus X cis-acting regulatory element
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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.
Cis-regulatory element
A cis-regulatory element or cis-element is a region of DNA or RNA that regulates the expression of genes located on that same molecule of DNA . This term is constructed from the Latin word cis, which means "on the same side as". These cis-regulatory elements are often binding sites for one or...
found in the 3' UTR of the Potato virus X
Plant virus
Plant viruses are viruses that affect plants. Like all other viruses, plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that do not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. Plant viruses are pathogenic to higher plants...
genome
Genome
In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or, for many types of virus, in RNA. The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA....
. This element has been found to be required for minus strand RNA accumulation and is essential for efficient viral replication.
See also
- Poxvirus AX element late mRNA cis-regulatory elementPoxvirus AX element late mRNA cis-regulatory elementThe Poxvirus AX element late mRNA family represents a cis-regulatory element present at the 3' end of poxvirus late ATI mRNA and is known as the AX element. The AX element is involved in directing the efficient production and orientation-dependent formation of late RNAs. It is likely that this...