Hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element

Hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element
Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of HepE_CRE
Identifiers
Symbol HepE_CRE
Rfam RF00550
Other data
RNA type Cis-reg
Domain(s) Viruses
SO 0000233

The hepatitis E virus cis-reactive element is a RNA element that is thought to be essential for "some step in gene expression".[1] The mutation of this element resulted in hepatitis E strains which were unable to infect rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta).[1]

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