STRUCTURE OF POLIOVIRUS REPLICATIVE INTERMEDIATE RNA - ELECTRON-MICROSCOPE ANALYSIS OF RNA CROSS-LINKED INVIVO WITH PSORALEN DERIVATIVE
STRUCTURE OF POLIOVIRUS REPLICATIVE INTERMEDIATE RNA - ELECTRON-MICROSCOPE ANALYSIS OF RNA CROSS-LINKED INVIVO WITH PSORALEN DERIVATIVE
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(84)90124-4
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
EHRENFELD, E
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作者:
RICHARDS, OC;MARTIN, SC;EHRENFELD, E
The structure of the poliovirus replicative intermediate (RI) RNA was examined by EM after cross-linking in vivo with 4''-aminomethyl-4,5'',8-trimethylpsoralen (AMT). After purification from infected [human cervical carcinoma HeLa] cells, undenatured RI appeared as a double-stranded backbone of genome length, with an averge of 3 (and ocasionally up to 8) nascent, single-stranded tails. After denaturation only single strands of heterogeneous length were visualized, indicating that the RI in the cell contains little or no duplex structure, and thus nascent chains are only transiently H-bonded to their template over short regions. The double-stranded backbone of undenatured RI is due to collapse of complementary chains during the deproteinization and purification procedures. The effectiveness of the in vivo cross-linking procedure was demonstrated by the complete inhibition of viral RNA synthesis in treated cells and by direct binding of [3H]AMT to RI molecules in vivo. Mature polio virions are impermeable to AMT; however, growth of virus in cells incubated with AMT in the dark resulted in normal yields of virus particles containing RNA genomes, whose infectivity could be subsequently photo-inactivated. The frequency of AMT-induced cross-linking was determined by analyses of double-stranded poliovirus RNA (RF). Cross-linking in vitro followed by spreading for EM under denaturing conditions yielded bubbled duplex structures with a minimum of 1 interstrand cross-link/80 base-pairs. RF cross-linked in vivo also showed extensive cross-linking, decreased .apprx. 5-fold from the in vitro cross-linked value. Thus, the failure to detect cross-linked RI under these conditions indicates that extensive base-pairing does not exist in vivo.