A conserved influenza A virus nucleoprotein code controls specific viral genome packaging

oleh: Étori Aguiar Moreira, Anna Weber, Hardin Bolte, Larissa Kolesnikova, Sebastian Giese, Seema Lakdawala, Martin Beer, Gert Zimmer, Adolfo García-Sastre, Martin Schwemmle, Mindaugas Juozapaitis

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-09-01

Deskripsi

The nucleotide sequence of the eight genomic RNA segments of influenza A virus provides essential packaging signals, but how these sequences are recognized is unknown. Here, Moreira et al. identify conserved amino acids in the viral nucleoprotein that regulate packaging of RNA segments.