TOPOGRAPHY OF THE 3 LATE MESSENGER-RNAS OF POLYOMA-VIRUS WHICH ENCODE THE VIRION PROTEINS
TOPOGRAPHY OF THE 3 LATE MESSENGER-RNAS OF POLYOMA-VIRUS WHICH ENCODE THE VIRION PROTEINS
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DOI:
10.1128/jvi.33.2.637-651.1980
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
PARKER, J
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作者:
KAMEN, R;FAVALORO, J;PARKER, J
The 3 cytoplasmic polyadenylated mRNA which separately encode the 3 capsid proteins (VP1, VP2 and VP3) of polyoma virus were mapped on the viral genome by 1- and 2-dimensional gel electrophoresis of nuclease S1-resistant RNA-DNA hybrids. The mRNA, designated mVP1, mVP2 and mVP3 to indicate the coding functions deduced from the cosedimentation of the RNA and the messenger activities comprise an overlapping set of 3''-coterminal molecules which also share a heterogeneous family of noncoding 5''-terminal regions. The 3 species differ in the length of the 3'' colinear coding region which is spliced to the 5'' leader sequences. The common polyadenylated 3'' end maps at map unit 25.3. The 5'' ends of the colinear bodies of mVP1, mVP3 and mVP2 map at 48.5, 59.5 and 66.5 map units, respectively. An examination of the polyoma virus DNA sequence in the vicinities of splicing sites approximated by the S1 gel mapping data for sequences common to the ends of known intervening sequences allowed prediction of the precise splice points in polyoma virus late mRNA. In all 3 cases, the leader sequences are joined to the mRNA bodies at least 48 nucleotides before the translational initiation codon used in each particular messenger. The start signal which functions in each mRNA is the 1st AUG (or GUG) triplet after the splice junction.