The viral polymerase complex produces positive-sense viral mRNA with host-cell derived 5' methyl caps. Capped viral mRNAs are selectively exported from the host cell nucleus through a currently unclear mechanism that may rely on components of the host cell mRNA export machinery (Chen, 2000; Engelhardt, 2006). Polyadenylation of viral mRNA appears be required for influenza mRNA export (Poon, 2000). A coupling of viral mRNA export with cellular pre-mRNA processing complexes, recruited by phosphorylation of host RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain which interacts with the viral polymerase (Engelhardt, 2005), has been proposed as controlling the export of a subset (M1, HA, and NS1, but not NP) of viral mRNA from the nucleus (Amorim, 2007).
Amorim, MJ, Digard, P, Medcalf, L, Dalton, RM, Read, EK
Fodor, E, Engelhardt, OG
Chen, Z, Krug, RM
structural constituent of nuclear pore activity of Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) [nuclear envelope]
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