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A single-stranded loop in the 5′ untranslated region of cucumber mosaic virus RNA 4 contributes to competitive translational activity
- Source :
- FEBS Letters. 462:161-166
- Publication Year :
- 1999
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 1999.
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Abstract
- The 5′ untranslated region (UTR) of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) RNA 4 confers a highly competitive translational advantage on a heterologous luciferase open reading frame. Here we investigated whether secondary structure in the 5′ UTR contributes to this translational advantage. Stabilization of the 5′ UTR RNA secondary structure inhibited competitive translational activity. Alteration of a potential single-stranded loop to a stem by substitution mutations greatly inhibited the competitive translational activity. Tobacco plants infected with wild type virus showed a 2.5-fold higher accumulation of maximal coat protein than did plants infected with a loop-mutant virus. Amplification of viral RNA in these plants could not explain the difference in accumulation of coat protein. Phylogenetic comparison showed that potential single-stranded loops of 12–23 nucleotides in length exist widely in subgroups of CMV.
- Subjects :
- Untranslated region
Five prime untranslated region
Molecular Sequence Data
Biophysics
Biology
Cucumovirus
Biochemistry
Virus
Nucleic acid secondary structure
Cucumber mosaic virus
Capsid
Structural Biology
Plant virus
Genetics
Protein biosynthesis
mRNA competition
5′ Untranslated region
Molecular Biology
Conserved Sequence
Phylogeny
Competitive translational activity
Base Sequence
Gene Amplification
RNA
Cell Biology
RNA secondary structure
Molecular biology
Protein Biosynthesis
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
RNA, Viral
5' Untranslated Regions
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00145793
- Volume :
- 462
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- FEBS Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....66e2ee422371febbd8b5c5db1a1a642c