The Halastavi arva virus intergenic region IRES promotes translation by the simplest possible initiation mechanism
Irina S. Abaeva, Quentin Vicens, Anthony Bochler…·Christopher U.T. Hellen
The paper shows that the Halastavi arva virus IGR IRES initiates translation without initiation factors or an AUG codon by directly placing the first codon in the decoding center.