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Rous sarcoma virus DNA synthesis in disrupted virions is initiated mainly at a site about 200 nucleotides or less from the 5′ terminus, but other initiation sites throughout the RNA seem to be used as well. No A UG triplet occurs within a 5′ terminal segment of about 25 nucleotides.
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Cashion, L., Joho, R., Planitz, M. et al. Initiation sites of Rous sarcoma virus RNA-directed DNA synthesis in vitro. Nature 262, 186–190 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/262186a0
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