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Selective Inhibition of Reovirus Ribonucleic Acid Synthesis by Cycloheximide

^a The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

ABSTRACT

Cycloheximide, at a concentration of 10 µg/ml, rapidly blocked protein synthesis in L cells infected with reovirus. When the drug was added before 5 hr postinfection, synthesis of both single- and double-stranded varieties of virus-specific ribonucleic acid (RNA), which normally commences between 6 and 7 hr after infection, was blocked. When the cycloheximide was added at 9 hr after infection, uptake of uridine-H³ into RNA, for the succeeding 6 hr at least, was similar to that of an infected culture without the drug. This latter uptake of uridine-H³ in the presence of cycloheximide was largely into single-stranded RNA, since double-stranded RNA synthesis was rapidly and markedly inhibited by the cycloheximide. Single-stranded RNA formed in the presence of cycloheximide was found not to be a precursor of viral progeny, double-stranded RNA. Synthesis of double-stranded RNA in the infected cell probably requires prior synthesis of a new protein, which has a rapid rate of turnover. The possibility that formation of single-stranded RNA is preceded by synthesis of a second new protein is discussed.

¹ Present address: Department of Bacteriology, School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

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