Form confers function: Case of the 3’X region of the hepatitis C virus genome

Figure 3 Long-range RNA-RNA interactions proposed for the 3'X region of hepatitis C virus genome. A: The homodimeric interactions between two 3'X regions embedded into two RNA molecules, model according to Cantero-Camacho et al[24]; B: The kissing-interactions with SL5B3.2[22,28,31,33]. Nucleotide sequence involved in dimerization is additionally indicated with red line, while those involved in the kissing-interactions are marked with blue lines.