Dissecting the Requirement for Subgenomic Promoter Sequences by RNA Recombination of Brome Mosaic Virus In Vivo: Evidence for Functional Separation of Transcription and Recombination
AUTOR(ES)
Wierzchoslawski, Rafal
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Previously, we and others mapped an increased homologous recombination activity within the subgenomic promoter (sgp) region in brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNA3 (A. Bruyere et al., J. Virol. 74:4214-4219, 2000; R. Wierzchoslawski et al., J. Virol. 77:6769-6776, 2003). In order to correlate sgp-mediated recombination and transcription, in the present work we used BMV RNA3 constructs that carried altered sgp repeats. We observed that the removal or extension of the poly(U) tract reduced or increased recombination, respectively. Deletion of the sgp core hairpin or its replacement by a different stem-loop structure inhibited recombination activity. Nucleotide substitutions at the +1 or +2 transcription initiation position reduced recombination. The sgp core alone supported only basal recombination activity. The sites of crossovers mapped to the poly(U) region and to the core hairpin. The observed effects on recombination did not parallel those observed for transcription. To explain how both activities operate within the sgp sequence, we propose a dual mechanism whereby recombination is primed at the poly(U) tract by the predetached nascent plus strand, whereas transcription is initiated de novo at the sgp core.
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