viral translational termination-reinitiation

Term ID

GO:0075525

Synonyms

• termination reinitiation involved in viral translation
• viral translation involving termination re-initiation
• viral translation involving termination-reinitiation
• viral translation involving translational stop-start

Definition

A process which occurs as part of viral mRNA translation which allows expression of a downstream open reading frame (ORF) in a dicistronic mRNA. In this process, ribosomes translate the upstream ORF but following termination, a proportion of 40S subunits remain tethered to the mRNA and go on to re-initiate translation at the start codon of the downstream ORF. (2)

References

• VZ:858

Ontology

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