Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Importance of the 1+7 configuration of ribonucleoprotein complexes for influenza A virus genome packaging

  • Takeshi Noda,
  • Shin Murakami,
  • Sumiho Nakatsu,
  • Hirotaka Imai,
  • Yukiko Muramoto,
  • Keiko Shindo,
  • Hiroshi Sagara,
  • Yoshihiro Kawaoka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02517-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Influenza A virus (IAV) packages its eight genomic RNA segments in a specific “1+7” pattern. Here, the authors generate IAV that lack one RNA segment and show that ribosomal RNA is packaged in place of the eighth segment, suggesting that the 1+7 pattern is important for particle production.