Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Crystal structure of an adenovirus virus-associated RNA

  • Iris V. Hood,
  • Jackson M. Gordon,
  • Charles Bou-Nader,
  • Frances E. Henderson,
  • Soheila Bahmanjah,
  • Jinwei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10752-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Adenovirus Virus-Associated (VA) noncoding RNAs interfere with the host system by mimicking double stranded RNAs. Here, the authors report a 2.7 Å crystal structure of VA-I RNA providing an understanding of its function.