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Messenger RNA for the coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus

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TMV RNA is not an efficient template for translation of the viral coat protein, in spite of containing nucleo-tide sequences coding for the protein. Efficient translation requires the prior synthesis within infected cells of a smaller RNA carrying only a portion of the information encoded in the whole genome.

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  1. Tony R. Hunter

    Present address: Salk Institute, PO Box 1809, San Diego, California, 92112

  2. John Knowland

    Present address: Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK

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    Tony R. Hunter & Tim Hunt

  2. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2HQ, UK

    John Knowland & David Zimmern

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Hunter, T., Hunt, T., Knowland, J. et al. Messenger RNA for the coat protein of tobacco mosaic virus. Nature 260, 759–764 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260759a0

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