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Marco A. Marra, et al.
Science 300, 1399 (2003);
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085953
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SARS-Associated Coronavirus plasm of animal host cells (5). They are distin-
guished by the presence of a single-stranded
plus-sense RNA genome about 30 kb in length
Marco A. Marra,1* Steven J. M. Jones,1 Caroline R. Astell,1 that has a 5⬘ cap structure and 3⬘ polyadenyla-
Robert A. Holt,1 Angela Brooks-Wilson,1 tion tract. Upon infection of an appropriate host
Yaron S. N. Butterfield,1 Jaswinder Khattra,1 Jennifer K. Asano,1 cell, the 5⬘-most open reading frame (ORF) of
Sarah A. Barber,1 Susanna Y. Chan,1 Alison Cloutier,1 the viral genome is translated into a large
Shaun M. Coughlin,1 Doug Freeman,1 Noreen Girn,1 polyprotein that is cleaved by viral-encoded pro-
teases to release several nonstructural pro-
Fig. 2. Map of the predicted ORFs and s2m motif in the Tor2 SARS virus genome sequence.