id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-269720-o81j3d1j Page, Kevin W. Sequence analysis of the leader RNA of two porcine coronaviruses: Transmissible gastroenteritis virus and porcine respiratory coronavirus 1990 .txt text/plain 3553 172 59 Primer extension, of a synthetic oligonucleotide complementary to the 5′ end of the nucleoprotein gene of TGEV was used to produce a single-stranded DNA copy of the leader RNA from the nucleoprotein mRNA species from TGEV and PRCV, the sequences of which were determined by Maxam and Gilbert cleavage. Comparison of the leader RNAs of TGEV and PRCV with published leader RNAs of other coronaviruses was used to identify areas of conserved sequence and potential secondary structure that may be involved in the transcription of coronavirus subgenomic mRNA species. The site, ACTAAAC, is seven nucleotides upstream of the nucleoprotein initiation codon and has also been found to precede all the TGEV structural protein genes and two of the three potential genes shown to be at the 5' end of mRNA species (15) (16) (17) . The two porcine coronavirus leader sequences were identical, indicating that the two viruses probably use the same RNA polymerase-leader complex binding site, ACTAAAC, for the synthesis of subgenomic mRNA species. ./cache/cord-269720-o81j3d1j.txt ./txt/cord-269720-o81j3d1j.txt