id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311066-62edsbfc Cox, Brian J. Integration of viral transcriptome sequencing with structure and sequence motifs predicts novel regulatory elements in SARS-CoV-2 2020-06-24 .txt text/plain 2926 172 61 Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA sequencing data from whole RNA transcriptomes identified TRS dependent and independent transcripts. Integration of transcripts and 5'-UTR sequence motifs identified that the pentaloop and the stem-loop 3 were also located upstream of spliced genes. Some RNAs, especially non-coding RNAs, generally lack a poly-A tail, which could explain poor detection of TRS independent sgmRNAs. Using published sequencing data of ribosome depleted total RNA from SARS-CoV-2 infected cells and animals (Blanco-Melo et al., 2020) , I aligned these against the viral genome (Figure 2) . Using the aligned reads, I generated transcript models using stringtie, which identified multiple spliced species that aligned with the TRS-L templated events (Figure 2) . Split reads also identified TRS-independent sgmRNAs. In support of my observations on SARS-CoV-2, I also assessed SARS-CoV and MERs transcriptional data, two other human pathogenic CoV. I also identified the TIR motif, a novel sequence element (ATTGGC) flanking the spliced regions of TRS independent sgmRNAs in both SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV. ./cache/cord-311066-62edsbfc.txt ./txt/cord-311066-62edsbfc.txt