Essential and Nonessential Elements in the 3′ Nontranslated Region of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus
| Autor: | Alexander Pankraz, Paul Becher, Heinz-Jürgen Thiel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Genetics
Diarrhea Viruses Bovine Viral Base Sequence biology Three prime untranslated region viruses Molecular Sequence Data Immunology Pestivirus RNA Context (language use) Virus Replication biology.organism_classification Microbiology Virology Virus Genome Replication and Regulation of Viral Gene Expression Viral life cycle Viral replication Insect Science Mutation RNA Viral Replicon 3' Untranslated Regions |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Virology. 79:9119-9127 |
| ISSN: | 1098-5514 0022-538X |
| DOI: | 10.1128/jvi.79.14.9119-9127.2005 |
| Popis: | The 3′ nontranslated region (NTR) of the pestivirus Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a close relative of human Hepatitis C virus , consists of three stem-loops which are separated by two single-stranded regions. As in other positive-stranded RNA viruses, the 3′ NTR of pestiviruses is involved in crucial processes of the viral life cycle. While several studies characterized cis -acting elements within the 3′ NTR of a BVDV replicon, there are no studies addressing the significance of these elements in the context of a replicating virus. To examine the functional importance of 3′ NTR elements, a set of 4-base deletions and deletions of each of the three stem-loops were introduced into an infectious BVDV cDNA clone. Emerging mutant viruses were characterized with regard to plaque phenotype, growth kinetics, and synthesis of viral RNA. The results indicated that presence of stem-loop (SL) I and the 3′-terminal part of the single-stranded region between stem-loops I and II are indispensable for pestiviral replication. In contrast, deletions within SL II and SL III as well as absence of either SL II or SL III still allowed efficient viral replication; however, a mutant RNA lacking both SL II and SL III was not infectious. The results of this study provide a detailed map of the essential and nonessential elements within the 3′ NTR of BVDV and contribute to our understanding of sequence and structural elements important for efficient viral replication of pestiviruses in natural host cells. |
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