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J. Virol., Aug 1997, 5990-5996, Vol 71, No. 8
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

The role of the pseudoknot at the 3' end of turnip yellow mosaic virus RNA in minus-strand synthesis by the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

BA Deiman, RM Kortlever and CW Pleij
Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Gorlaeus Laboratories, The Netherlands.

The tRNA-like structure at the 3' end of turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV) RNA was studied in order to determine the role of this structure in the initiation of minus-strand synthesis in vitro. Deletions in the 5'-to-3' direction up to the pseudoknot structure did not result in a decrease of transcription efficiency. However, transcription efficiency was reduced twofold when a fragment of 21 nucleotides, comprising the 3'-terminal hairpin, was used as a template. tRNA(Phe) from yeast, Escherichia coli 5S rRNA, and the 3'-terminal 208 nucleotides of alfalfa mosaic virus RNA 3 could not be transcribed by the RNA- dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of TYMV. Various mutations in the sequences of loop regions L1 and L2 or of stem region S1 of the pseudoknot were tested to further investigate the importance of the pseudoknot structure. The results were compared with those obtained in an earlier study on aminoacylation with the same mutants (R. M. W. Mans, M. H. van Steeg, P. W. G. Verlaan, C. W. A. Pleij, and L. Bosch, J. Mol. Biol. 223:221-232; 1992). Mutants which still harbor a stable pseudoknot, as proven by probing its structure, have a transcription efficiency very close to that of the wild-type virus. Disruption of the pseudoknot structure, however, gives rise to a drop in transcription efficiency to about 50%. No indications of base-specific interactions between L1, L2, or S1 of the pseudoknot and the RdRp were found.

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