id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-294056-7e477y1x La Monica, Nicola Coronavirus mRNA synthesis: Identification of novel transcription initiation signals which are differentially regulated by different leader sequences 1992-05-31 .txt text/plain 3341 173 58 Previously, we have identified a transcription initiation site (for mRNA 2-1), which is more efficiently transcribed by viruses containing two copies of UCUAA sequence in the leader RNA than by those with three copies. To understand the mechanism of MHV mRNA transcription, we have attempted to determine whether the differential regulation of transcription initiation by leader RNA containing different UCUAA copy numbers is unique to mRNA 2-l. The analysis of several other recombinant viruses with different genome structures suggested that mRNA 3-l was synthesized only by viruses with a leader RNA containing three copies of UCUAA and gene 3 sequence derived from A59 but not JHM (10, 13). Using various primers representing sequences of different regions of gene 1 of the JHM strain of MHV (2) and a second primer representing the 5'-end of the leader RNA, we detected several PCR products which represented mRNAs initiated from various sites. ./cache/cord-294056-7e477y1x.txt ./txt/cord-294056-7e477y1x.txt