id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-263302-z5uhrta5 Zhang, Xuming Identification of a Noncanonical Signal for Transcription of a Novel Subgenomic mRNA of Mouse Hepatitis Virus: Implication for the Mechanism of Coronavirus RNA Transcription 2000-12-05 .txt text/plain 7944 411 58 Transfection of the reporter RNA into MHV-infected cells resulted in synthesis of a CAT-specific subgenomic mRNA detected by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Further sequencing on cDNA clones derived from JHM2c mRNAs by reserve transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has shown that the leader-body joining sites in subgenomic mRNA2-1 are more heterogeneous . When it was placed in front of the chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase (CAT) gene in the defective-interfering (DI) RNA-CAT reporter plasmid, the IG5-1, which is devoid of any known IRES sequence, can direct the synthesis of a subgenomic CAT-containing mRNA and expression of the CAT activity, thus confirming that the IG5-1 serves as a promoter for transcription of a subgenomic mRNA. To identify the minimal sequence required for subgenomic mRNA transcription, three deletions within the 140-nt sequence were made by PCR, and the deletion fragments were cloned into the DI RNA-CAT reporter vector in place of the wild-type, full-length (140-nt) se, and MHV-1 (F), respectively. ./cache/cord-263302-z5uhrta5.txt ./txt/cord-263302-z5uhrta5.txt