HETEROGENEITY AND 5'-TERMINAL STRUCTURES OF THE LATE RNAS OF SIMIAN-VIRUS-40
HETEROGENEITY AND 5'-TERMINAL STRUCTURES OF THE LATE RNAS OF SIMIAN-VIRUS-40
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(78)90022-0
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
WEISSMAN, SM
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作者:
GHOSH, PK;REDDY, VB;WEISSMAN, SM
The 5''-terminal structures of the late lytic RNA of SV-40 were investigated by binding the plus strand of small DNA fragments labeled in the 5''-terminal position with 32P to specific regions of cytoplasmic polyadenylated late RNA, extending these primer fragments in a 3'' direction with reverse transcriptase, fractionating the extended products on denaturing polyacrylamide gels and preforming DNA sequence analyses of the extended products. Extension of a primer bound to the 5'' terminus of the body of 19 S RNA revealed a multiplicity of extended products. RNA from which these products are derived fall into 4 classes, the first containing sequences colinear with SV-40 DNA and the latter 3 containing splices which fuse the 5'' terminus of the 19 S body at residue 476 (0.765 map units) to residues 444, 291 and 212, respectively. Of 15 extended products analyzed, 8 have 3'' termini with the sequence T-A(A). These termini lie at positions 243, 182, 110, 55 and 5189 on the SV-40 genome. A number of lines of evidence, including nucleotide sequence analysis of late RNA labeled in vivo and the fact that the principal sequence in SV-40 late mRNA adjacent to capped structures is A-U(U), suggest that the termini at positions 243 and 182 correspond to the 5'' termini of discrete in vivo 19 S RNA and that stops at the shorter positions may also correspond to the 5'' termini of specific in vivo species of 19 S RNA. An additional extended product was observed with a sequence colinear with SV-40 DNA and a 3'' terminus of T-A-A at redidue 548 (0.779 map units). It contains sequences complementary to the VP[viral polypeptide]3 but not the VP2 initiation codons of 19 S RNA, and 4 additional gaps analyzed in the late 16 S and early 19 S RNA of SV-40, identical di-, tri- or tetranucleotide sequences lie on the ungapped precursor at sites which undergo splicing; these sequences may be involved in determining the specificity of the splicing reaction.