Hepatitis C virus 3'X element

{{short description|RNA element}}

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| Name = Hepatitis C virus 3′X element

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| caption = Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of HCV_X3

| Symbol = HCV_X3

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| Rfam = RF00481

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| RNA_type = Cis-reg

| Tax_domain = Viruses

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| SO = {{SO|0000233}}

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The hepatitis C virus 3′X element is an RNA element which contains three stem-loop structures that are essential for replication. {{cite journal | vauthors = Lee H, Shin H, Wimmer E, Paul AV | title = cis-acting RNA signals in the NS5B C-terminal coding sequence of the hepatitis C virus genome | journal = Journal of Virology | volume = 78 | issue = 20 | pages = 10865–10877 | date = October 2004 | pmid = 15452207 | pmc = 521798 | doi = 10.1128/JVI.78.20.10865-10877.2004 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Yi M, Lemon SM | title = 3′ nontranslated RNA signals required for replication of hepatitis C virus RNA | journal = Journal of Virology | volume = 77 | issue = 6 | pages = 3557–3568 | date = March 2003 | pmid = 12610131 | pmc = 149512 | doi = 10.1128/JVI.77.6.3557-3568.2003 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Yi M, Lemon SM | title = Structure-function analysis of the 3′ stem-loop of hepatitis C virus genomic RNA and its role in viral RNA replication | journal = RNA | volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 331–345 | date = March 2003 | pmid = 12592007 | pmc = 1370400 | doi = 10.1261/rna.2144203 }}