Mutational analysis of upstream AUG codons of poliovirus RNA - PubMed (original) (raw)

Mutational analysis of upstream AUG codons of poliovirus RNA

J Pelletier et al. J Virol. 1988 Dec.

Abstract

The 5' untranslated region of poliovirus type 2 Lansing RNA consists of 744 nucleotides containing seven AUG codons which are followed by in-frame termination codons, thus forming short open reading frames (ORFs). To determine the biological significance of these small ORFs, all of the upstream AUG codons were mutated to UUG. The point mutations were introduced into an infectious poliovirus cDNA clone, and RNA transcribed in vitro from the altered cDNA was transfected into HeLa cells to recover the virus. Mutation of AUG 7 resulted in a virus (called R2-5NC-14) with a small-plaque phenotype, whereas mutation of the other six AUG codons produced virus with a wild-type plaque morphology. To determine whether the small-plaque phenotype of R2-5NC-14 was due to altered translational efficiency of the viral mRNA, we constructed chimeric mRNAs containing the 5' noncoding region of poliovirus mRNA fused to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) coding sequence. mRNA containing a mutated AUG 7 codon showed decreased translational efficiency in vitro. The results indicate that the upstream ORFs of poliovirus RNA are not essential for viral replication and do not act as barriers to the translation of poliovirus mRNA. AUG 7 and flanking sequences may play a positive acting role in poliovirus RNA translation.

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Mutational analysis of upstream AUG codons of poliovirus RNA - PubMed (original) (raw)