Minimal cis-Acting Elements Required for Adenovirus Genome Packaging
AUTOR(ES)
Ostapchuk, Philomena
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The design of drugs for treatment of virus infections and the exploitation of viruses as drugs for treatment of diseases could be made more successful by understanding the molecular mechanisms of virus-specific events. The process of assembly, and more specifically packaging of the genome into a capsid, is an obligatory step leading to future infections. To enhance our understanding of the molecular mechanism of packaging, it is necessary to characterize the viral components necessary for the event. In the case of adenovirus, sequences between nucleotides 200 and 400 at the left end of the genome are essential for packaging. This region contains a series of redundant bipartite sequences, termed A repeats, that function in packaging. Synthetic packaging sequences made of multimers of a single A repeat substitute for the authentic adenovirus packaging domain. A repeats are binding sites for the CCAAT displacement protein and the viral protein IVa2. Several lines of evidence implicate these proteins in the packaging process. It was not known, however, whether other cis-acting elements play a role in the packaging process as well. We utilized an in vivo approach to address the role of the inverted terminal repeats and the covalently linked terminal proteins in packaging of the adenovirus genome. Our results show that these elements are not necessary for efficient packaging of the viral genome. A significant implication of these results applicable to gene therapy vector design is that the linkage of the adenovirus packaging domain to heterologous DNA sequences should suffice for targeting to the viral capsid.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=153973Documentos Relacionados
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