The 3′-Untranslated Region of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Enhances Translation from an Internal Ribosomal Entry Site
AUTOR(ES)
Ito, Takayoshi
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Translation of most eukaryotic mRNAs and many viral RNAs is enhanced by their poly(A) tails. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) contains a positive-stranded RNA genome which does not have a poly(A) tail but has a stretch of 98 nucleotides (X region) at the 3′-untranslated region (UTR), which assumes a highly conserved stem-loop structure. This X region binds a polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB), which also binds to the internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in HCV 5′-UTR. These RNA-protein interactions may regulate its translation. We generated a set of HCV RNAs differing only in their 3′-UTRs and compared their translation efficiencies. HCV RNA containing the X region was translated three- to fivefold more than the corresponding RNAs without this region. Mutations that abolished PTB binding in the X region reduced, but did not completely abolish, enhancement in translation. The X region also enhanced translation from another unrelated IRES (from encephalomyocarditis virus RNA), but did not affect the 5′-end-dependent translation of globin mRNA in either monocistronic or bicistronic RNAs. It did not appear to affect RNA stability. The free X region added in trans, however, did not enhance translation, indicating that the translational enhancement by the X region occurs only in cis. These results demonstrate that the highly conserved 3′ end of HCV RNA provides a novel mechanism for enhancement of HCV translation and may offer a target for antiviral agents.
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