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Eukaryotic organisms cap the 5′ ends of their messenger RNAs by a series of four chemical reactions. Some viruses achieve this using a single molecule; the crystal structure of such an enzyme from bluetongue virus reveals an elongated modular architecture that provides a scaffold for an assemblage of active sites, two contributed by a domain of novel structure.

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We thank L. Lyne, W. Lu and the staff of BM14 and ID14 beamlines at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility for technical support. This work was supported by the Medical Research Council, UK, EC SPINE grant QLG2-CT-2002-00988 (D.I.S.), and by the Royal Society, UK (J.M.G.).

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    Geoff Sutton, Jonathan M Grimes & David I Stuart

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Sutton, G., Grimes, J., Stuart, D. et al. Bluetongue virus VP4 is an RNA-capping assembly line. Nat Struct Mol Biol 14, 449–451 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb1225

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  • Received: 17 July 2006

  • Accepted: 05 March 2007

  • Published: 08 April 2007

  • Issue Date: May 2007

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb1225