STRUCTURE OF LATE ADENOVIRUS-2 HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR-RNA
STRUCTURE OF LATE ADENOVIRUS-2 HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEAR-RNA
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(79)90468-6
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
SHARP, PA
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作者:
BERGET, SM;SHARP, PA
Late adenovirus 2 mRNA are processed from a single transcriptional unit some 20,000 nucleotides in length. All cytoplasmic RNA have multiple leaders spliced to their 5'' termini; the most common form is a tripartite leader set. Sequences complementary to the 5'' proximal leader lie adjacent to position 17, the site for initiation on this transcriptional unit. The structure of steady-state nuclear RNA in late adenovirus 2-infected [human cervical carcinoma HeLa] cells was analyzed by EM of hybrids of nuclear RNA and restriction endonuclease cleavage fragments, and digestion of similar hybrids with single-strand-specific nucleases and resolving the protected DNA strands by electrophoresis in agarose gels. While all cytoplasmic mRNA have 3 or more leader segments spliced together following excision of appropriate intervening sequences, long nuclear RNA contain some or all of these intervening sequences. Long completely colinear nuclear RNA have 5'' termini at position 17 on the genome. All other nuclear RNA forms with 1 or 2 intervening segments excised have a structure consistent with the proposition that the 5'' proximal splice must occur before the 2nd internal segment of intervening sequences can be excised. Long nuclear viral RNA typically have unique 3'' termini, which map in the same position as the 3'' termini of cytoplasmic mRNA. The structure of steady-state nuclear late adenovirus 2 RNA is consistent with these molecules being intermediates in the intramolecular processing of mRNA from a much longer initial transcript.