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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 40, Issue 12, Pages 5602-5614Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks182
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- Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) [11-04-91335-NNIO_a]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG IRTG 1384]
- Russian Federation [MK-5309.2011.4]
- Oxford University Press
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Adaptation to the host cell environment to efficiently take-over the host cell's machinery is crucial in particular for small RNA viruses like picornaviruses that come with only small RNA genomes and replicate exclusively in the cytosol. Their Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) elements are specific RNA structures that facilitate the 5' end-independent internal initiation of translation both under normal conditions and when the cap-dependent host protein synthesis is shut-down in infected cells. A longstanding issue is which host factors play a major role in this internal initiation. Here, we show that the functionally most important domain V of the poliovirus IRES uses tRNA(Gly) anticodon stem-loop mimicry to recruit glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GARS) to the apical part of domain V, adjacent to the binding site of the key initiation factor eIF4G. The binding of GARS promotes the accommodation of the initiation region of the IRES in the mRNA binding site of the ribosome, thereby greatly enhancing the activity of the IRES at the step of the 48S initiation complex formation. Moonlighting functions of GARS that may be additionally needed for other events of the virus-host cell interaction are discussed.
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