Journal of General Virology

Fig. 3. Genome organization of nonsegmented negative-sense RNA viruses, as exemplified by VSV. The coding regions for the nucleoprotein (N), phosphoprotein (P), matrix protein (M), glycoprotein (G) and polymerase protein (L) are separated by regulatory sequences that contain a transcription stop (gene end) signal, a polyadenylation signal, a nontranscribed intergenic region and a transcription start (gene start) signal. Transcription units are flanked by a leader (Le) and trailer (Tr) region that contain the genomic and antigenomic viral promoters, respectively.

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