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ArticleRNA (New York, N.Y.)2020

Structure and function analysis of the essential 3'X domain of hepatitis C virus.

Jesús Castillo-Martínez, Tamara Ovejero, Cristina Romero-López, Isaías Sanmartín, Beatriz Berzal-Herranz, Elisa Oltra, Alfredo Berzal-Herranz, José Gallego

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Jesús Castillo-MartínezFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, 46001, Spain.
Tamara OvejeroFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, 46001, Spain.
Cristina Romero-LópezInstituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López-Neyra" (IPBLN-CSIC), Armilla, Granada, 18016, Spain.
Isaías SanmartínFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, 46001, Spain.
Beatriz Berzal-HerranzInstituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López-Neyra" (IPBLN-CSIC), Armilla, Granada, 18016, Spain.
Elisa OltraFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, 46001, Spain.
Alfredo Berzal-HerranzInstituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina "López-Neyra" (IPBLN-CSIC), Armilla, Granada, 18016, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3722-7973
José GallegoFacultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Valencia, 46001, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0627-6927

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 3'X domain of hepatitis C virus has been reported to control viral replication and translation by modulating the exposure of a nucleotide segment involved in a distal base-pairing interaction with an upstream 5BSL3.2 domain. To study the mechanism of this molecular switch, we have analyzed the structure of 3'X mutants that favor one of the two previously proposed conformations comprising either two or three stem-loops. Only the two-stem conformation was found to be stable and to allow the establishment of the distal contact with 5BSL3.2, and also the formation of 3'X domain homodimers by means of a universally conserved palindromic sequence. Nucleotide changes disturbing the two-stem conformation resulted in poorer replication and translation levels, explaining the high degree of conservation detected for this sequence. The switch function attributed to the 3'X domain does not occur as a result of a transition between two- and three-stem conformations, but likely through the sequestration of the 5BSL3.2-binding sequence by formation of 3'X homodimers.

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Nucleic Acid Conformation3' Untranslated RegionsBase PairingDimerizationHepacivirusHepatitis CHumansInverted Repeat SequencesModels, MolecularMutationNucleotidesRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA FoldingRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural ProteinsVirus Replication3' Untranslated RegionsNS-5 protein, hepatitis C virusNucleotidesRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralViral Nonstructural Proteins3'X domain5BSL3.2 domainhepatitis C virusreplication cycleRNA structure

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PMCPMC6961542

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