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Prof. Zhirnov Oleg
Prof. Zhirnov Oleg
Medical doctor, scientist
Study on viral pathogenesis mechanisms and design of antivirals and drug development
Moscow, Russia

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Coronaviruses: unknown negative genes in the positive RNA genomes
Prof. Zhirnov Oleg

Prof. Zhirnov Oleg

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November 24, 2020
Coronavirus family has a single-stranded RNA genome encoding 25-30 proteins in different viruses by the mechanism of positive-sense strategy. Extended open reading translation frames (genes) were found to locate under a negative-sense polarity in all coronaviruses genomes. These negative-sense genes varies in the range of 150-450 nt to encode negative genes polypeptides (NGP) with mol. wt. 5-30 kDa. It implies that coronaviruses besides positive genome strategy may have "a dark side of the Moon" expressing genes and virions through the negative strategy. It is noteworthy, that positive- and negative-sense genes colocolized in the same RNA regions of coronavirus genome, so called stacking genes.  Ambisense stacking of genes in coronavirus genomes significantly increases virus diversity, genetic potential and extend virus-host adaptation pathway possibilities.

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