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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2008

A complex RNA motif defined by three discontinuous 5-nucleotide-long strands is essential for Flavivirus RNA replication.

Byung-Hak Song, Sang-Im Yun, Yu-Jeong Choi, Jeong-Min Kim, Chan-Hee Lee, Young-Min Lee

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Article in RNA (New York, N.Y.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Zika virus: An emerging flavivirus.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2017
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  15. Japanese encephalitis: the virus and vaccines.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2014
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6 authors.

Byung-Hak SongDepartment of Microbiology, College of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea.
Sang-Im Yun
Yu-Jeong Choi
Jeong-Min Kim
Chan-Hee Lee
Young-Min Lee

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tertiary or higher-order RNA motifs that regulate replication of positive-strand RNA viruses are as yet poorly understood. Using Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), we now show that a key element in JEV RNA replication is a complex RNA motif that includes a string of three discontinuous complementary sequences (TDCS). The TDCS consists of three 5-nt-long strands, the left (L) strand upstream of the translation initiator AUG adjacent to the 5'-end of the genome, and the middle (M) and right (R) strands corresponding to the base of the Flavivirus-conserved 3' stem-loop structure near the 3'-end of the RNA. The three strands are arranged in an antiparallel configuration, with two sets of base-pairing interactions creating L-M and M-R duplexes. Disrupting either or both of these duplex regions of TDCS completely abolished RNA replication, whereas reconstructing both duplex regions, albeit with mutated sequences, fully restored RNA replication. Modeling of replication-competent genomes recovered from a large pool of pseudorevertants originating from six replication-incompetent TDCS mutants suggests that both duplex base-pairing potentials of TDCS are required for RNA replication. In all cases, acquisition of novel sequences within the 3'M-R duplex facilitated a long-range RNA-RNA interaction of its 3'M strand with either the authentic 5'L strand or its alternative (invariably located upstream of the 5' initiator), thereby restoring replicability. We also found that a TDCS homolog is conserved in other flaviviruses. These data suggest that two duplex base-pairings defined by the TDCS play an essential regulatory role in a key step(s) of Flavivirus RNA replication.

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Virus ReplicationAnimalsBase PairingBase SequenceCell LineCricetinaeEncephalitis Virus, JapaneseNucleic Acid ConformationRNA, ViralRNA, Viral

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PMID18669441
PMCPMC2525960

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