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Journal of Virology, June 2002, p. 6114-6120, Vol. 76, No. 12
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.12.6114-6120.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The Synthesis of Minus-Strand RNA of Bamboo Mosaic Potexvirus Initiates from Multiple Sites within the Poly(A) Tail

Jai-Hong Cheng, Chi-Weng Peng, Yau-Heiu Hsu, and Ching-Hsiu Tsai*

Graduate Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan

Received 3 December 2001/ Accepted 13 March 2002

The 3' terminus of the bamboo mosaic potexvirus (BaMV) contains a poly(A) tail, the 5' portion of which participates in the formation of an RNA pseudoknot required for BaMV RNA replication. Recombinant RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of BaMV binds to the pseudoknot poly(A) tail in gel mobility shift assays (C.-Y. Huang, Y.-L. Huang, M. Meng, Y.-H. Hsu, and C.-H. Tsai, J. Virol. 75:2818-2824, 2001). Approximately 20 nucleotides of the poly(A) tail adjacent to the 3' untranslated region (UTR) are protected from diethylpyrocarbonate modification, suggesting that this region may be used to initiate minus-strand RNA synthesis. The 5' terminus of the minus-strand RNA synthesized by the RdRp in vitro was examined using 5' rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) and DNA sequencing. Minus-strand RNA synthesis was found to initiate from several positions within the poly(A) tail, with the highest frequency of initiation being from the 7th to the 10th adenylates counted from the 5'-most adenylate of the poly(A) tail. Sequence analyses of BaMV progeny RNAs recovered from Nicotiana benthamiana protoplasts which were inoculated with mutants containing a mutation at the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 16th position of the poly(A) tail suggested the existence of variable initiation sites, similar to those found in 5' RACE experiments. We deduce that the initiation site for minus-strand RNA synthesis is not fixed at one position but resides opposite one of the 15 adenylates of the poly(A) tail immediately downstream of the 3' UTR of BaMV genomic RNA.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Graduate Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan. Phone: (886) 4-22840451. Fax: (886) 4-22860260. E-mail: chtsai1{at}dragon.nchu.edu.tw.

Journal of Virology, June 2002, p. 6114-6120, Vol. 76, No. 12
0022-538X/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JVI.76.12.6114-6120.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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