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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 75, Issue 22, Pages 10696-10708Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.22.10696-10708.2001
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R56 AI042189, R01 AI042189, AI42189, R21 AI042189] Funding Source: Medline
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Chimeric poliovirus RNAs, possessing the 5' nontranslated region (NTR) of hepatitis C virus in place of the 5' NTR of poliovirus, were used to examine the role of the poliovirus 5' NTR in viral replication. The chimeric viral RNAs were incubated in cell-free reaction mixtures capable of supporting the sequential translation and replication of poliovirus RNA. Using preinitiation RNA replication complexes formed in these reactions, we demonstrated that the 3' NTR of poliovirus RNA was insufficient, by itself, to recruit the viral replication proteins required for negative-strand RNA synthesis. The 5'-terminal cloverleaf of poliovirus RNA was required in cis to form functional preinitiation RNA replication complexes capable of uridylylating VPg and initiating the synthesis of negative-strand RNA. These results are consistent with a model in which the 5'-terminal cloverleaf and 3' NTRs of poliovirus RNA interact via temporally dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes to coordinately mediate and regulate the sequential translation and replication of poliovirus RNA.
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