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Review
. 2022 May 23;14(5):1113.
doi: 10.3390/v14051113.

Retroviral RNA Processing

Karen L Beemon  1
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Review

Retroviral RNA Processing

Karen L Beemon. Viruses. .

Abstract

This review is an accompaniment to a Special Issue on "Retroviral RNA Processing". It discusses post-transcriptional regulation of retroviruses, ranging from the ancient foamy viruses to more modern viruses, such as HIV-1, HTLV-1, Rous sarcoma virus, murine leukemia virus, mouse mammary tumor virus, and Mason-Pfizer monkey virus. This review is not comprehensive. However, it tries to address some of the major questions in the field with examples of how different retroviruses express their genes. It is amazing that a single primary RNA transcript can have so many possible fates: genomic RNA, unspliced mRNA, and up to 50 different alternatively spliced mRNAs. This review will discuss the sorting of RNAs for packaging or translation, RNA nuclear export mechanisms, splicing, translation, RNA modifications, and avoidance of nonsense-mediated RNA decay.

Keywords: NMD; RNA modification; RNA processing; export; foamy viruses; retroviruses; splicing; translation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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