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ArticleJournal of virology2006

A pseudoknot in a preactive form of a viral RNA is part of a structural switch activating minus-strand synthesis.

Jiuchun Zhang, Guohua Zhang, Rong Guo, Bruce A Shapiro, Anne E Simon

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Article in Journal of virology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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Jiuchun ZhangDepartment of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, Microbiology Building, University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Guohua Zhang
Rong Guo
Bruce A Shapiro
Anne E Simon

Funding

Role of RNA Structural Switches in the Replication of a (+)-Strand RNA VirusR01GM061515 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI SIMON, ANNE ELIZABETH · 2002 to 2010
$2.4M
COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTUREZ01BC008382 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI SHAPIRO, BRUCE A. · 1996 to 2008
$1.2M
Intramural NIH HHSNIGMS NIH HHS GM 61515-01NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM061515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA can adopt different conformations in response to changes in the metabolic status of cells, which can regulate processes such as transcription, translation, and RNA cleavage. We previously proposed that an RNA conformational switch in an untranslated satellite RNA (satC) of Turnip crinkle virus (TCV) regulates initiation of minus-strand synthesis (G. Zhang, J. Zhang, A. T. George, T. Baumstark, and A. E. Simon, RNA 12:147-162, 2006). This model was based on the lack of phylogenetically inferred hairpins or a known pseudoknot in the "preactive" structure assumed by satC transcripts in vitro. We now provide evidence that a second pseudoknot (Psi(2)), whose disruption reduces satC accumulation in vivo and enhances transcription by the TCV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase in vitro, stabilizes the preactive satC structure. Alteration of either Psi(2) partner caused nearly identical structural changes, including single-stranded-specific cleavages in the pseudoknot sequences and strong cleavages in a distal element previously proposed to mediate the conformational switch. These results indicate that the preactive structure identified in vitro has biological relevance in vivo and support a requirement for this alternative structure and a conformational switch in high-level accumulation of satC in vivo.

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Nucleic Acid ConformationBase SequenceGene Expression Regulation, ViralModels, GeneticMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPlant VirusesRNARNA, SatelliteRNA, ViralVirusesVirus ReplicationRNARNA, SatelliteRNA, Viral

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PMID16940529
PMCPMC1563917

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