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J Virol. 1983 March; 45(3): 1048-1055

Protein-RNA interaction in encephalomyocarditis virus as revealed by UV light-induced covalent linkages.

ABSTRACT

UV irradiation of encephalomyocarditis virus led to an increase in the buoyant density of the virus in CsCl gradients from 1.34 to 1.46 g/cm3. Heat treatment of the irradiated virus (20 min at 54 degrees C) reduced the density to 1.40 g/cm3 and led to the loss of approximately 55% of the labeled RNA from the virions. The non-irradiated virions were converted by such heating into empty capsids. Irradiation also resulted in an increase in the accessibility of RNA inside the virions to the action of pancreatic RNase. An increase in the UV dose did not enlarge the fraction of RNA molecules covalently linked to protein; this was revealed by the lack of any secondary increase in the apparent RNase resistance of the labeled RNA in the irradiated virions. Destruction of the irradiated virus with sodium dodecyl sulfate and 2-mercaptoethanol allowed the isolation of a 40S structure containing viral RNA and RNA-linked proteins. The latter comprised no more than 2.5% of the whole protein content of the virion. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic analysis of the RNase-treated 40S structure revealed at least three viral structural proteins in the same ratio as was present in the intact virions.

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