West Nile virus genome harbors essential riboregulatory elements with conserved and host-specific functional roles

SHAPE-MaP structure probing experiment was performed on SARS-CoV-2 infected Vero or C6/36 cells at 4 days post infection with two biological replicates. For each replciate, SHAPE-MaP includes a sample treated with 2-methylnicotinic acid imidazolide acid (modified) or a minuse reagent (unmodified). NAI preferentially reacts with unpaired bases in RNA, forming acylated bases. These modifications are encoded as mutation during reverse transcripatse and library preparation. After sequencing and alignment, the reactivity profiles of 'modified' and 'unmodified' samples are used to calculate SHAPE reactivity of each base Overall design: SHAPE-MaP on West Nile virus genomic RNA growing in Vero or C6/36 cells