Taura syndrome virus IRES initiates translation by binding its tRNA-mRNA-like structural element in the ribosomal decoding center

A competing story with similar results on a related IRES structure was published in Cell around the same time. This may highlight how arbitrary the decisions made by Nature editors really are. Our paper was submitted to Nature before the competing paper was submitted to Cell. In the light of this, comments by Reviewer #3 deserve special attention.