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ArticleEukaryotic cell2005

Structural elements in the 5'-untranslated region of giardiavirus transcript essential for internal ribosome entry site-mediated translation initiation.

Srinivas Garlapati, Ching C Wang

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Article in Eukaryotic cell, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Srinivas GarlapatiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94107-2280, USA.
Ching C Wang
University of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Translation Regulation in Giardia lambliaR01AI030475 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WANG, CHING CHUNG · 1991 to 2011
$3.9M
NIAID NIH HHS AI-30475NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI030475
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Translation of uncapped giardiavirus (GLV) mRNA in Giardia lamblia requires the presence of a 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) and a viral capsid coding region. We used dicistronic viral constructs to show that the downstream 253 nucleotides (nt) of the 5'-UTR plus the initial 264-nt capsid coding region constitute an internal ribosome entry site (IRES). Predicted secondary structures in the 253-nt 5'-UTR include stem-loops U3, U4a, U4b, U4c, and U5. Chemical and enzymatic probing analysis confirmed the presence of all predicted stem-loops except U4a. Disruption of stem-loop structures U3 and U5 by site-directed mutagenesis resulted in a drastic reduction in translation of a monocistronic viral transcript, which could be restored by compensatory sequence changes. Mutations disrupting stem-loops U4b and U4c do not exert an appreciable effect on translation, but certain sequences in the U4a region and in U4b do appear to play important roles in the IRES. Structural analysis also suggests that an 8-nt U3 loop sequence (nt 147 to 154) pairs with an 8-nt downstream sequence (nt 168 to 175) to form a pseudoknot. Disruption of this pseudoknot by mutagenesis resulted in a drastic reduction in translation, which could be restored by compensatory sequence changes. This study has defined the secondary structure in the 5'-UTR of the IRES. Together with the previous results, we have now completed analysis of the entire structure of GLV IRES and fully defined the functionally essential structural elements in it.

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Nucleic Acid Conformation5' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsBase PairingBase SequenceCapsidCodon, InitiatorGiardia lambliaGiardiavirusMolecular Sequence DataMutagenesis, Site-DirectedPeptide Chain Initiation, TranslationalProtein BiosynthesisRibosomesRNA, MessengerRNA Stability5' Untranslated RegionsCodon, InitiatorRNA, MessengerRNA, Viral

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PMID15821134
PMCPMC1087810
OpenAlexW2150288122

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