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Epstein–Barr virus small nucleolar RNA 1
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V-snoRNA1 is a C/D box small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) identified in B lymphocytes infected with the Epstein–Barr virus (human herpesvirus 4 (HHV-4)).[1] This snoRNA is the first known example of a snoRNA expressed from a viral genome.[2] It is homologous to eukaryotic snoRNAs because it contains the C and D boxes sequence motifs (RUGAUGA and CUGA) but lacks a terminal stem-loop structure. The nucleolar localization of v-snoRNA1 was determined by in situ hybridization. V-snoRNA1 can form into a ribonucleoprotein complex (snoRNP) as co-immunoprecipitation (CoIP) assays showed that this snoRNA interacts with the snoRNA core proteins: fibrillarin, Nop56, Nop58. It has also been proposed that this snoRNA may act as a miRNA-like precursor that is processed into 24-nucleotide-sized RNA fragments that target the untranslated region at the 3'-end (the 3'-UTR) of viral DNA polymerase mRNA.[1]
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