Cap Independent Translation of Dengue Virus

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Investigator: Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, PhD
Sponsor: University of California Berkeley

Location(s): United States

Description

An essential step for a productive infection by the dengue flavivirus (DEN) is translation of the m7G-capped, nonpolyadenylated positive-sense RNA genome. Sequences within the DEN 3′ untranslated region (UTR)  modulate viral translation, manipulating those sequences can inhance translation.