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ArticleNucleic acids research2016

Mutational analysis of the Potyviridae transcriptional slippage site utilized for expression of the P3N-PIPO and P1N-PISPO proteins.

Allan Olspert, John P Carr, Andrew E Firth

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Allan OlspertDivision of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK allan.olspert@ttu.ee.
John P CarrDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK.
Andrew E FirthDivision of Virology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK aef24@cam.ac.uk.
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J011762/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J015652/1Wellcome Trust 106207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Potyviridae comprise the largest and most important family of RNA plant viruses. An essential overlapping ORF, termed pipo, resides in an internal region of the main polyprotein ORF. Recently, expression of pipo was shown to depend on programmed transcriptional slippage at a conserved GAAAAAA sequence, resulting in the insertion of an extra A into a proportion of viral transcripts, fusing the pipo ORF in frame with the 5' third of the polyprotein ORF. However, the sequence features that mediate slippage have not been characterized. Using a duplicate copy of the pipo slip site region fused into a different genomic location where it can be freely mutated, we investigated the sequence requirements for transcriptional slippage. We find that the leading G is not strictly required, but increased flanking sequence GC content correlates with higher insertion rates. A homopolymeric hexamer is optimal for producing mainly single-nucleotide insertions. We also identify an overabundance of G to A substitutions immediately 3'-adjacent to GAAAAAA in insertion-free transcripts, which we infer to result from a 'to-fro' form of slippage during positive-strand synthesis. Analysis of wild-type and reverse complement sequences suggests that slippage occurs preferentially during synthesis of poly(A) and therefore occurs mainly during positive-strand synthesis.

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DNA Mutational AnalysisGene Expression Regulation, ViralTranscription, GeneticAmino Acid SubstitutionBase CompositionBase SequenceGreen Fluorescent ProteinsModels, GeneticMutationNicotianaPoly APotyviridaeViral ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPoly AViral Proteins

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PMID27185887
PMCPMC5027478
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