Archaeological approaches to RNA virus evolution.

Autor: Ariza-Mateos A; Laboratory of RNA Archaeology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra' (CSIC), Granada, Spain.; Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain., Briones C; Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain., Perales C; Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.; Department of Clinical Microbiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, UAM, Madrid, Spain., Sobrino F; Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain., Domingo E; Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa' (CSIC-UAM), Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain., Gómez J; Laboratory of RNA Archaeology, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra' (CSIC), Granada, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of physiology [J Physiol] 2024 Jun; Vol. 602 (11), pp. 2469-2478. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 11.
DOI: 10.1113/JP284416
Abstrakt: Studies with RNA enzymes (ribozymes) and protein enzymes have identified certain structural elements that are present in some cellular mRNAs and viral RNAs. These elements do not share a primary structure and, thus, are not phylogenetically related. However, they have common (secondary/tertiary) structural folds that, according to some lines of evidence, may have an ancient and common origin. The term 'mRNA archaeology' has been coined to refer to the search for such structural/functional relics that may be informative of early evolutionary developments in the cellular and viral worlds and have lasted to the present day. Such identified RNA elements may have developed as biological signals with structural and functional relevance (as if they were buried objects with archaeological value), and coexist with the standard linear information of nucleic acid molecules that is translated into proteins. However, there is a key difference between the methods that extract information from either the primary structure of mRNA or the signals provided by secondary and tertiary structures. The former (sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis) requires strict continuity of the material vehicle of information during evolution, whereas the archaeological method does not require such continuity. The tools of RNA archaeology (including the use of ribozymes and enzymes to investigate the reactivity of the RNA elements) establish links between the concepts of communication and language theories that have not been incorporated into knowledge of virology, as well as experimental studies on the search for functionally relevant RNA structures.
(© 2023 The Authors. The Journal of Physiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Physiological Society.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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