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ArticleNucleic acids research2015

Evidence that avian reovirus σNS is an RNA chaperone: implications for genome segment assortment.

Alexander Borodavka, James Ault, Peter G Stockley, Roman Tuma

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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4 authors.

Alexander BorodavkaSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK A.Borodavka@leeds.ac.uk.
James AultSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Peter G StockleySchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Roman TumaSchool of Molecular and Cellular Biology & Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK R.Tuma@leeds.ac.uk.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilWellcome Trust 089310/09/ZWellcome Trust 103068/Z/13/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reoviruses are important human, animal and plant pathogens having 10-12 segments of double-stranded genomic RNA. The mechanisms controlling the assortment and packaging of genomic segments in these viruses, remain poorly understood. RNA-protein and RNA-RNA interactions between viral genomic segment precursors have been implicated in the process. While non-structural viral RNA-binding proteins, such as avian reovirus σNS, are essential for virus replication, the mechanism by which they assist packaging is unclear. Here we demonstrate that σNS assembles into stable elongated hexamers in vitro, which bind single-stranded nucleic acids with high affinity, but little sequence specificity. Using ensemble and single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, we show that σNS also binds to a partially double-stranded RNA, resulting in gradual helix unwinding. The hexamer can bind multiple RNA molecules and exhibits strand-annealing activity, thus mediating conversion of metastable, intramolecular stem-loops into more stable heteroduplexes. We demonstrate that the ARV σNS acts as an RNA chaperone facilitating specific RNA-RNA interactions between genomic precursors during segment assortment and packaging.

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AnimalsChick EmbryoGenome, ViralNucleic Acid ConformationOrthoreovirus, AvianProtein MultimerizationRNARNA-Binding ProteinsViral ProteinsRNARNA-Binding ProteinsViral Proteins

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PMID26109354
PMCPMC4538827

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