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Thoner TW, Meloy MM, Long JM, Diller JR, Slaughter JC, Ogden KM. Reovirus Efficiently Reassorts Genome Segments during Coinfection and Superinfection. J Virol 2022; 96:e0091022. [PMID: 36094315 PMCID: PMC9517712 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00910-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reassortment, or genome segment exchange, increases diversity among viruses with segmented genomes. Previous studies on the limitations of reassortment have largely focused on parental incompatibilities that restrict generation of viable progeny. However, less is known about whether factors intrinsic to virus replication influence reassortment. Mammalian orthoreovirus (reovirus) encapsidates a segmented, double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome, replicates within cytoplasmic factories, and is susceptible to host antiviral responses. We sought to elucidate the influence of infection multiplicity, timing, and compartmentalized replication on reovirus reassortment in the absence of parental incompatibilities. We used an established post-PCR genotyping method to quantify reassortment frequency between wild-type and genetically barcoded type 3 reoviruses. Consistent with published findings, we found that reassortment increased with infection multiplicity until reaching a peak of efficient genome segment exchange during simultaneous coinfection. However, reassortment frequency exhibited a substantial decease with increasing time to superinfection, which strongly correlated with viral transcript abundance. We hypothesized that physical sequestration of viral transcripts within distinct virus factories or superinfection exclusion also could influence reassortment frequency during superinfection. Imaging revealed that transcripts from both wild-type and barcoded viruses frequently co-occupied factories, with superinfection time delays up to 16 h. Additionally, primary infection progressively dampened superinfecting virus transcript levels with greater time delay to superinfection. Thus, in the absence of parental incompatibilities and with short times to superinfection, reovirus reassortment proceeds efficiently and is largely unaffected by compartmentalization of replication and superinfection exclusion. However, reassortment may be limited by superinfection exclusion with greater time delays to superinfection. IMPORTANCE Reassortment, or genome segment exchange between viruses, can generate novel virus genotypes and pandemic virus strains. For viruses to reassort their genome segments, they must replicate within the same physical space by coinfecting the same host cell. Even after entry into the host cell, many viruses with segmented genomes synthesize new virus transcripts and assemble and package their genomes within cytoplasmic replication compartments. Additionally, some viruses can interfere with subsequent infection of the same host or cell. However, spatial and temporal influences on reassortment are only beginning to be explored. We found that infection multiplicity and transcript abundance are important drivers of reassortment during coinfection and superinfection, respectively, for reovirus, which has a segmented, double-stranded RNA genome. We also provide evidence that compartmentalization of transcription and packaging is unlikely to influence reassortment, but the length of time between primary and subsequent reovirus infection can alter reassortment frequency.
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- Timothy W. Thoner
- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Coria A, Wienecke A, Knight ML, Desirò D, Laederach A, Borodavka A. Rotavirus RNA chaperone mediates global transcriptome-wide increase in RNA backbone flexibility. Nucleic Acids Res 2022; 50:10078-10092. [PMID: 36062555 PMCID: PMC9508848 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Due to genome segmentation, rotaviruses must co-package eleven distinct genomic RNAs. The packaging is mediated by virus-encoded RNA chaperones, such as the rotavirus NSP2 protein. While the activities of distinct RNA chaperones are well studied on smaller RNAs, little is known about their global effect on the entire viral transcriptome. Here, we used Selective 2'-hydroxyl Acylation Analyzed by Primer Extension and Mutational Profiling (SHAPE-MaP) to examine the secondary structure of the rotavirus transcriptome in the presence of increasing amounts of NSP2. SHAPE-MaP data reveals that despite the well-documented helix-unwinding activity of NSP2 in vitro, its incubation with cognate rotavirus transcripts does not induce a significant change in the SHAPE reactivities. However, a quantitative analysis of mutation rates measured by mutational profiling reveals a global 5-fold rate increase in the presence of NSP2. We demonstrate that the normalization procedure used in deriving SHAPE reactivities from mutation rates can mask an important global effect of an RNA chaperone. Analysis of the mutation rates reveals a larger effect on stems rather than loops. Together, these data provide the first experimentally derived secondary structure model of the rotavirus transcriptome and reveal that NSP2 acts by globally increasing RNA backbone flexibility in a concentration-dependent manner.
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- Aaztli Coria
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
- Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
- Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Papa G, Venditti L, Braga L, Schneider E, Giacca M, Petris G, Burrone OR. CRISPR-Csy4-Mediated Editing of Rotavirus Double-Stranded RNA Genome. Cell Rep 2021; 32:108205. [PMID: 32997981 PMCID: PMC7523552 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2020] [Revised: 06/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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CRISPR-nucleases have been widely applied for editing cellular and viral genomes, but nuclease-mediated genome editing of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses has not yet been reported. Here, by engineering CRISPR-Csy4 nuclease to localize to rotavirus viral factories, we achieve the nuclease-mediated genome editing of rotavirus, an important human and livestock pathogen with a multisegmented dsRNA genome. Rotavirus replication intermediates cleaved by Csy4 is edited through the formation of precise deletions in the targeted genome segments in a single replication cycle. Using CRISPR-Csy4-mediated editing of rotavirus genome, we label the products of rotavirus secondary transcription made by newly assembled viral particles during rotavirus replication, demonstrating that this step largely contributes to the overall production of viral proteins. We anticipate that the nuclease-mediated cleavage of dsRNA virus genomes will promote an advanced level of understanding of viral replication and host-pathogen interactions, also offering opportunities to develop therapeutics.
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- Guido Papa
- Molecular Immunology Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
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- Molecular Immunology Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Molecular Medicine Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy; British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London, London, UK
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- Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB), Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
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- Molecular Immunology Laboratory, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy.
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Polymorphisms in the Most Oncolytic Reovirus Strain Confer Enhanced Cell Attachment, Transcription, and Single-Step Replication Kinetics. J Virol 2020; 94:JVI.01937-19. [PMID: 31776267 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01937-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Reovirus serotype 3 Dearing (T3D) replicates preferentially in transformed cells and is in clinical trials as a cancer therapy. Laboratory strains of T3D, however, exhibit differences in plaque size on cancer cells and differences in oncolytic activity in vivo This study aimed to determine why the most oncolytic T3D reovirus lab strain, the Patrick Lee laboratory strain (T3DPL), replicates more efficiently in cancer cells than other commonly used laboratory strains, the Kevin Coombs laboratory strain (T3DKC) and Terence Dermody laboratory (T3DTD) strain. In single-step growth curves, T3DPL titers increased at higher rates and produced ∼9-fold higher burst size. Furthermore, the number of reovirus antigen-positive cells increased more rapidly for T3DPL than for T3DTD In conclusion, the most oncolytic T3DPL possesses replication advantages in a single round of infection. Two specific mechanisms for enhanced infection by T3DPL were identified. First, T3DPL exhibited higher cell attachment, which was attributed to a higher proportion of virus particles with insufficient (≤3) σ1 cell attachment proteins. Second, T3DPL transcribed RNA at rates superior to those of the less oncolytic T3D strains, which is attributed to polymorphisms in M1-encoding μ2 protein, as confirmed in an in vitro transcription assay, and which thus demonstrates that T3DPL has an inherent transcription advantage that is cell type independent. Accordingly, T3DPL established rapid onset of viral RNA and protein synthesis, leading to more rapid kinetics of progeny virus production, larger virus burst size, and higher levels of cell death. Together, these results emphasize the importance of paying close attention to genomic divergence between virus laboratory strains and, mechanistically, reveal the importance of the rapid onset of infection for reovirus oncolysis.IMPORTANCE Reovirus serotype 3 Dearing (T3D) is in clinical trials for cancer therapy. Recently, it was discovered that highly related laboratory strains of T3D exhibit large differences in their abilities to replicate in cancer cells in vitro, which correlates with oncolytic activity in a murine model of melanoma. The current study reveals two mechanisms for the enhanced efficiency of T3DPL in cancer cells. Due to polymorphisms in two viral genes, within the first round of reovirus infection, T3DPL binds to cells more efficiency and more rapidly produces viral RNAs; this increased rate of infection relative to that of the less oncolytic strains gives T3DPL a strong inherent advantage that culminates in higher virus production, more cell death, and higher virus spread.
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Cell Entry-Independent Role for the Reovirus μ1 Protein in Regulating Necroptosis and the Accumulation of Viral Gene Products. J Virol 2019; 93:JVI.00199-19. [PMID: 30894465 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00199-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The reovirus outer capsid protein μ1 regulates cell death in infected cells. To distinguish between the roles of incoming, capsid-associated, and newly synthesized μ1, we used small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown. Loss of newly synthesized μ1 protein does not affect apoptotic cell death in HeLa cells but enhances necroptosis in L929 cells. Knockdown of μ1 also affects aspects of viral replication. We found that, while μ1 knockdown results in diminished release of infectious viral progeny from infected cells, viral minus-strand RNA, plus-strand RNA, and proteins that are not targeted by the μ1 siRNA accumulate to a greater extent than in control siRNA-treated cells. Furthermore, we observed a decrease in sensitivity of these viral products to inhibition by guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) (which targets minus-strand synthesis to produce double-stranded RNA) when μ1 is knocked down. Following μ1 knockdown, cell death is also less sensitive to treatment with GuHCl. Our studies suggest that the absence of μ1 allows enhanced transcriptional activity of newly synthesized cores and the consequent accumulation of viral gene products. We speculate that enhanced accumulation and detection of these gene products due to μ1 knockdown potentiates receptor-interacting protein 3 (RIP3)-dependent cell death.IMPORTANCE We used mammalian reovirus as a model to study how virus infections result in cell death. Here, we sought to determine how viral factors regulate cell death. Our work highlights a previously unknown role for the reovirus outer capsid protein μ1 in limiting the induction of a necrotic form of cell death called necroptosis. Induction of cell death by necroptosis requires the detection of viral gene products late in infection; μ1 limits cell death by this mechanism because it prevents excessive accumulation of viral gene products that trigger cell death.
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Yan L, Zhang J, Guo H, Yan S, Chen Q, Zhang F, Fang Q. Aquareovirus NS80 Initiates Efficient Viral Replication by Retaining Core Proteins within Replication-Associated Viral Inclusion Bodies. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0126127. [PMID: 25938226 PMCID: PMC4418822 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2014] [Accepted: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Viral inclusion bodies (VIBs) are specific intracellular compartments for reoviruses replication and assembly. Aquareovirus nonstructural protein NS80 has been identified to be the major constituent for forming globular VIBs in our previous study. In this study, we investigated the role of NS80 in viral structural proteins expression and viral replication. Immunofluorescence assays showed that NS80 could retain five core proteins or inner-capsid proteins (VP1-VP4 and VP6), but not outer-capsid proteins (VP5 and VP7), within VIBs in co-transfected or infected cells. Further co-immunoprecipitation analysis confirmed that NS80 could interact with each core protein respectively. In addition, we found that newly synthesized viral RNAs co-localized with VIBs. Furthermore, time-course analysis of viral structural proteins expression showed that the expression of NS80 was detected first, followed by the detection of inner shell protein VP3, and then of other inner-capsid proteins, suggesting that VIBs were essential for the formation of viral core frame or progeny virion. Moreover, knockdown of NS80 by shRNA not only inhibited the expression of aquareovirus structural proteins, but also inhibited viral infection. These results indicated that NS80-based VIBs were formed at earlier stage of infection, and NS80 was able to coordinate the expression of viral structural proteins and viral replication.
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- Liming Yan
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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Hull R. Replication of Plant Viruses. PLANT VIROLOGY 2014. [PMCID: PMC7184227 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-384871-0.00007-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Viruses replicate using both their own genetic information and host cell components and machinery. The different genome types have different replication pathways which contain controls on linking the process with translation and movement around the cell as well as not compromising the infected cell. This chapter discusses the replication mechanisms, faults in replication and replication of viruses co-infecting cells. Viruses replicate using both their own genetic information and host cell components and machinery. The different genome types have different replication pathways which contain controls on linking the process with translation and movement around the cell as well as not compromising the infected cell. This chapter discusses the replication mechanisms, faults in replication and replication of viruses coinfecting cells.
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Murray KE, Nibert ML. Guanidine hydrochloride inhibits mammalian orthoreovirus growth by reversibly blocking the synthesis of double-stranded RNA. J Virol 2007; 81:4572-84. [PMID: 17301147 PMCID: PMC1900160 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02106-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Millimolar concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) are known to inhibit the replication of many plant and animal viruses having positive-sense RNA genomes. For example, GuHCl reversibly interacts with the nucleotide-binding region of poliovirus protein 2C(ATPase), resulting in a specific inhibition of viral negative-sense RNA synthesis. The use of GuHCl thereby allows for the spatiotemporal separation of poliovirus gene expression and RNA replication and provides a powerful tool to synchronize the initiation of negative-sense RNA synthesis during in vitro replication reactions. In the present study, we examined the effect of GuHCl on mammalian orthoreovirus (MRV), a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus from the family Reoviridae. MRV growth in murine L929 cells was reversibly inhibited by 15 mM GuHCl. Furthermore, 15 mM GuHCl provided specific inhibition of viral dsRNA synthesis while sparing both positive-sense RNA synthesis and viral mRNA translation. By using GuHCl to provide temporal separation of MRV gene expression and genome replication, we obtained evidence that MRV primary transcripts support sufficient protein synthesis to assemble morphologically normal viral factories containing functional replicase complexes. In addition, the coordinated use of GuHCl and cycloheximide allowed us to demonstrate that MRV dsRNA synthesis can occur in the absence of ongoing protein synthesis, although to only a limited extent. Future studies utilizing the reversible inhibition of MRV dsRNA synthesis will focus on elucidating the target of GuHCl, as well as the components of the MRV replicase complexes.
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- Kenneth E Murray
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Campagna M, Eichwald C, Vascotto F, Burrone OR. RNA interference of rotavirus segment 11 mRNA reveals the essential role of NSP5 in the virus replicative cycle. J Gen Virol 2005; 86:1481-1487. [PMID: 15831961 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80598-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Rotavirus genomes contain 11 double-stranded (ds) RNA segments. Genome segment 11 encodes the non-structural protein NSP5 and, in some strains, also NSP6. NSP5 is produced soon after viral infection and localizes in cytoplasmic viroplasms, where virus replication takes place. RNA interference by small interfering (si) RNAs targeted to genome segment 11 mRNA of two different strains blocked production of NSP5 in a strain-specific manner, with a strong effect on the overall replicative cycle: inhibition of viroplasm formation, decreased production of other structural and non-structural proteins, synthesis of viral genomic dsRNA and production of infectious particles. These effects were shown not to be due to inhibition of NSP6. The results obtained strengthen the importance of secondary transcription/translation in rotavirus replication and demonstrate that NSP5 is essential for the assembly of viroplasms and virus replication.
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- Michela Campagna
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Area Science Park, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Area Science Park, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Area Science Park, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Area Science Park, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Xu W, Patrick MK, Hazelton PR, Coombs KM. Avian reovirus temperature-sensitive mutant tsA12 has a lesion in major core protein sigmaA and is defective in assembly. J Virol 2004; 78:11142-51. [PMID: 15452234 PMCID: PMC521821 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.20.11142-11151.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2004] [Accepted: 05/18/2004] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Members of our laboratory previously generated and described a set of avian reovirus (ARV) temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants and assigned 11 of them to 7 of the 10 expected recombination groups, named A through G (M. Patrick, R. Duncan, and K. M. Coombs, Virology 284:113-122, 2001). This report presents a more detailed analysis of two of these mutants (tsA12 and tsA146), which were previously assigned to recombination group A. The capacities of tsA12 and tsA146 to replicate at a variety of temperatures were determined. Morphological analyses indicated that cells infected with tsA12 at a nonpermissive temperature produced approximately 100-fold fewer particles than cells infected at a permissive temperature and accumulated core particles. Cells infected with tsA146 at a nonpermissive temperature also produced approximately 100-fold fewer particles, a larger proportion of which were intact virions. We crossed tsA12 with ARV strain 176 to generate reassortant clones and used them to map the temperature-sensitive lesion in tsA12 to the S2 gene. S2 encodes the major core protein sigmaA. Sequence analysis of the tsA12 S2 gene showed a single alteration, a cytosine-to-uracil transition, at nucleotide position 488. This alteration leads to a predicted amino acid change from proline to leucine at amino acid position 158 in the sigmaA protein. An analysis of the core crystal structure of the closely related mammalian reovirus suggested that the Leu(158) substitution in ARV sigmaA lies directly under the outer face of the sigmaA protein. This may cause a perturbation in sigmaA such that outer capsid proteins are incapable of condensing onto nascent cores. Thus, the ARV tsA12 mutant represents a novel assembly-defective orthoreovirus clone that may prove useful for delineating virus assembly.
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- Wanhong Xu
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 0W3
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Miller CL, Broering TJ, Parker JSL, Arnold MM, Nibert ML. Reovirus sigma NS protein localizes to inclusions through an association requiring the mu NS amino terminus. J Virol 2003; 77:4566-76. [PMID: 12663763 PMCID: PMC152138 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.8.4566-4576.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cells infected with mammalian reoviruses contain phase-dense inclusions, called viral factories, in which viral replication and assembly are thought to occur. The major reovirus nonstructural protein mu NS forms morphologically similar phase-dense inclusions when expressed in the absence of other viral proteins, suggesting it is a primary determinant of factory formation. In this study we examined the localization of the other major reovirus nonstructural protein, sigma NS. Although sigma NS colocalized with mu NS in viral factories during infection, it was distributed diffusely throughout the cell when expressed in the absence of mu NS. When coexpressed with mu NS, sigma NS was redistributed and colocalized with mu NS inclusions, indicating that the two proteins associate in the absence of other viral proteins and suggesting that this association may mediate the localization of sigma NS to viral factories in infected cells. We have previously shown that mu NS residues 1 to 40 or 41 are both necessary and sufficient for mu NS association with the viral microtubule-associated protein mu 2. In the present study we found that this same region of micro NS is required for its association with sigma NS. We further dissected this region, identifying residues 1 to 13 of mu NS as necessary for association with sigma NS, but not with mu 2. Deletion of sigma NS residues 1 to 11, which we have previously shown to be required for RNA binding by that protein, resulted in diminished association of sigma NS with mu NS. Furthermore, when treated with RNase, a large portion of sigma NS was released from mu NS coimmunoprecipitates, suggesting that RNA contributes to their association. The results of this study provide further evidence that mu NS plays a key role in forming the reovirus factories and recruiting other components to them.
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- Cathy L Miller
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Kim J, Zhang X, Centonze VE, Bowman VD, Noble S, Baker TS, Nibert ML. The hydrophilic amino-terminal arm of reovirus core shell protein lambda1 is dispensable for particle assembly. J Virol 2002; 76:12211-22. [PMID: 12414960 PMCID: PMC136864 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.23.12211-12222.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The reovirus core particle is a molecular machine that mediates synthesis, capping, and export of the viral plus strand RNA transcripts. Its assembly and structure-function relationships remain to be well understood. Following the lead of previous studies with other Reoviridae family members, most notably orbiviruses and rotaviruses, we used recombinant baculoviruses to coexpress reovirus core proteins lambda1, lambda2, and sigma2 in insect cells. The resulting core-like particles (CLPs) were purified and characterized. They were found to be similar to cores with regard to their sizes, morphologies, and protein compositions. Like cores, they could also be coated in vitro with the two major outer-capsid proteins, micro 1 and sigma3, to produce virion-like particles. Coexpression of core shell protein lambda1 and core nodule protein sigma2 was sufficient to yield CLPs that could withstand purification, whereas expression of lambda1 alone was not, indicating a required role for sigma2 as a previous study also suggested. In addition, CLPs that lacked lambda2 (formed from lambda1 and sigma2 only) could not be coated with micro 1 and sigma3, indicating a required role for lambda2 in the assembly of these outer-capsid proteins into particles. To extend the use of this system for understanding the core and its assembly, we addressed the hypothesis that the hydrophilic amino-terminal region of lambda1, which adopts an extended arm-like conformation around each threefold axis in the reovirus core crystal structure, plays an important role in assembling the core shell. Using a series of lambda1 deletion mutants, we showed that the amino-terminal 230 residues of lambda1, including its zinc finger, are dispensable for CLP assembly. Residues in the 231-to-259 region of lambda1, however, were required. The core crystal structure suggests that residues in the 231-to-259 region are necessary because they affect the interaction of lambda1 with the threefold and/or fivefold copies of sigma2. An effective system for studies of reovirus core structure, assembly, and functions is hereby established.
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- Jonghwa Kim
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Patton JT, Spencer E. Genome replication and packaging of segmented double-stranded RNA viruses. Virology 2000; 277:217-25. [PMID: 11080470 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- J T Patton
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 7 Center Drive, MSC 0720, Room 117, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
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Gillian AL, Schmechel SC, Livny J, Schiff LA, Nibert ML. Reovirus protein sigmaNS binds in multiple copies to single-stranded RNA and shares properties with single-stranded DNA binding proteins. J Virol 2000; 74:5939-48. [PMID: 10846075 PMCID: PMC112090 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.13.5939-5948.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/1999] [Accepted: 04/05/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Reovirus nonstructural protein sigmaNS interacts with reovirus plus-strand RNAs in infected cells, but little is known about the nature of those interactions or their roles in viral replication. In this study, a recombinant form of sigmaNS was analyzed for in vitro binding to nucleic acids using gel mobility shift assays. Multiple units of sigmaNS bound to single-stranded RNA molecules with positive cooperativity and with each unit covering about 25 nucleotides at saturation. The sigmaNS protein did not bind preferentially to reovirus RNA over nonreovirus RNA in competition experiments but did bind preferentially to single-stranded over double-stranded nucleic acids and with a slight preference for RNA over DNA. In addition, sigmaNS bound to single-stranded RNA to which a 19-base DNA oligonucleotide was hybridized at either end or near the middle. When present in saturative amounts, sigmaNS displaced this oligonucleotide from the partial duplex. The strand displacement activity did not require ATP hydrolysis and was inhibited by MgCl(2), distinguishing it from a classical ATP-dependent helicase. These properties of sigmaNS are similar to those of single-stranded DNA binding proteins that are known to participate in genomic DNA replication, suggesting a related role for sigmaNS in replication of the reovirus RNA genome.
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- A L Gillian
- Department of Biochemistry and Institute for Molecular Virology, The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA
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Yue Z, Shatkin AJ. Enzymatic and control functions of reovirus structural proteins. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 233:31-56. [PMID: 9599920 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72092-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Z Yue
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5638, USA
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Brown EG. Reovirus M1 gene expression. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 233:197-213. [PMID: 9599928 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72092-5_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- E G Brown
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Joklik WK, Roner MR. Molecular recognition in the assembly of the segmented reovirus genome. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 53:249-81. [PMID: 8650305 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60147-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- W K Joklik
- Department of Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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- W K Joklik
- Department of Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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- J T Patton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL 33101
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Miller JE, Samuel CE. Proteolytic cleavage of the reovirus sigma 3 protein results in enhanced double-stranded RNA-binding activity: identification of a repeated basic amino acid motif within the C-terminal binding region. J Virol 1992; 66:5347-56. [PMID: 1501278 PMCID: PMC289090 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.9.5347-5356.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The reovirus capsid protein sigma 3 was examined for double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding activity by Northwestern (RNA-protein) blot analysis. Treatment of virion-derived sigma 3 protein with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease led to an increase in the dsRNA-binding activity associated with the C-terminal fragment of the protein. Recombinant C-terminal fragments of the sigma 3 protein were expressed in Escherichia coli from the S4 cDNA of reovirus serotype 1. These truncated sigma 3 proteins displayed proteolytic processing and dsRNA-binding activity similar to those observed for native, virion-derived sigma 3 protein as measured by Northwestern blot analysis. Construction of a modified pET3c vector, pET3Exo, allowed the production of 3'-terminal deletions of the S4 cDNA by using exonuclease III and rapid screening of the induced truncated sigma 3 proteins. An 85-amino-acid domain within the C-terminal portion of the sigma 3 protein which was responsible for dsRNA-binding activity was identified. The 85-amino-acid domain possessed a repeated basic amino acid motif which was conserved in all three serotypes of reovirus. Deletion of one of the basic motifs, predicted to be an amphipathic alpha-helix, destroyed dsRNA-binding activity.
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- J E Miller
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106
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Gorziglia MI, Collins PL. Intracellular amplification and expression of a synthetic analog of rotavirus genomic RNA bearing a foreign marker gene: mapping cis-acting nucleotides in the 3'-noncoding region. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:5784-8. [PMID: 1321421 PMCID: PMC402102 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.13.5784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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cDNAs were constructed to encode plus- or minus-sense analogs of gene 9 RNA of porcine rotavirus strain OSU in which the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) reporter gene was flanked by the 5'-terminal 44 nucleotides (nt) and 3'-terminal 35 nt of the authentic rotavirus gene. Transfection of plus-sense gene-9-CAT RNA into rotavirus-infected cells resulted in its amplification and in the efficient expression of CAT; this was greatly enhanced by the presence of a 5' cap structure. Amplification was ablated by omitting the rotavirus superinfection or by removing the 3'-terminal 35-nt rotavirus sequence from the RNA. This result indicated that amplification depended both on rotavirus proteins supplied in trans and on cis-acting rotavirus sequences. Minus-sense or double-stranded gene-9-CAT RNA was essentially inactive, indicating that synthetic RNAs can be introduced into the rotavirus replicative cycle in vivo only when provided in the plus sense. However, incorporation of the CAT-bearing RNA into infectious rotavirus was not detected. Two heterologous rotaviruses, the simian RRV and chicken Ch2 strains, efficiently complemented the OSU-based gene-9-CAT RNA, even though the Ch2 strain was only 50%-66% related in the noncoding regions. Mutational analysis of the 35-nt 3'-noncoding region showed that the 3'-terminal 12 or 17 nt were sufficient for reduced (12% or 23%, respectively) levels of amplification, whereas inclusion of the 3'-terminal 19 nt fully restored amplification. Thus, the 3'-terminal cis-acting signals required for amplification include the 7-nt-terminal consensus sequence together with 12 nt of adjoining, less-well-conserved sequence.
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- M I Gorziglia
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Weeks RS, Patterson JL, Stuart K, Widmer G. Transcribing and replicating particles in a double-stranded RNA virus from Leishmania. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1992; 52:207-13. [PMID: 1620160 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(92)90053-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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During the replicative cycle of many double-stranded RNA viruses, transcription of particles with a double-stranded RNA genome alternates with replication of particles containing a single-stranded genome. In virions infecting some strains of Leishmania guyanensis the putative transcriptase and replicase activities of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase were previously detected in vitro. Northern hybridization to RNA of known polarity demonstrates that the single-stranded RNA products are of positive polarity and, by definition, are the products of the viral transcriptase. Re-evaluation of previously published data in the light of these findings suggests that transcription in Leishmania viruses is conservative. Sedimentation in sucrose gradients revealed two types of viral particles; single-stranded RNA particles comprised a small fraction of the virus population and sedimented more slowly than the peak of double-stranded RNA particles. In agreement with the replicative model of other dsRNA viruses, these single-stranded particles co-purified with the viral replicase activity that resulted in double-stranded RNA synthesis. In virus-infected promastigote extracts replicase activity decreased with increasing parasite density in culture, suggesting a correlation between cell division and viral replication.
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- R S Weeks
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, WA
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Antczak JB, Joklik WK. Reovirus genome segment assortment into progeny genomes studied by the use of monoclonal antibodies directed against reovirus proteins. Virology 1992; 187:760-76. [PMID: 1546466 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90478-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Using a panel of monoclonal antibodies (MABs) against reovirus proteins, we have identified proteins that associate with reovirus messenger RNA molecules prior to the generation of progeny double-stranded (ds) genome segments and proteins that are components of the structures within which progeny ds genome segments are generated. The following conclusions can be drawn from the results obtained. (1) Three proteins rapidly become associated with mRNA molecules to form single-stranded RNA-containing complexes (ssRCCs): the nonstructural protein microNS, the nonstructural protein sigma NS, and protein sigma 3. (2) Analysis of populations of ssRCCs in density gradients and by sequential exposure to various MABs indicates that some ssRCCs contain only microNS, others microNS and sigma NS or sigma 3, and others all three proteins. Each ssRCC contains one RNA molecule and, depending on the size of the RNA, 10-30 protein molecules. (3) The relative proportions of the individual RNA species in the ssRCC populations reflect the composition of the total mRNA population present in infected cells (which differs substantially from equimolarity). (4) RCCs that contain dsRNA, which become detectable as early as 4 hr after infection, contain not only microNS, sigma NS, and sigma 3, but also lambda 2. (5) The relative proportions of the 10 genome segments in dsRCCs are equimolar. This suggests that genome segment assortment into progeny genomes is linked to the transcription of plus strands into minus strands.
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- J B Antczak
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Zou S, Brown EG. Identification of sequence elements containing signals for replication and encapsidation of the reovirus M1 genome segment. Virology 1992; 186:377-88. [PMID: 1733095 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90003-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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In reovirus the genetic signals that control genome replication and encapsidation are unknown. Serial passage of reovirus results in the accumulation of deletion mutants that contain fragments of genome segments. The smallest fragments found in deletion mutants will consist of the minimum essential sequences for genome replication and assembly. T1 x T3 reassortants containing the L2 segment from T3 and the M3 segment derived from T1 generate deletions in segment M1 on serial passage. Fragments of M1 segments were produced by serial passage, characterized by PAGE and Northern blotting before amplification by PCR, cloning, and sequencing. Thirteen of the smallest deletion fragments were sequenced. All of the smallest fragments contained sequences from both termini of segment M1. The smallest fragment was 344 nucleotides long. The consensus sequences consisted of 132-135 nucleotides from the 5' end of the plus strand and 183-185 nucleotides from the 3' end of the plus strand. It is concluded that these regions contain all the signals necessary for the replication and assembly of the M1 genome segment.
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- S Zou
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Gottlieb P, Strassman J, Frucht A, Qiao XY, Mindich L. In vitro packaging of the bacteriophage phi 6 ssRNA genomic precursors. Virology 1991; 181:589-94. [PMID: 2014638 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90892-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Bacteriophage phi 6 contains three segments of double-stranded RNA within a nucleocapsid. Plasmids containing cDNA copies of the large genomic segment direct the synthesis of viral proteins that assemble into procapsids in Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas phaseolicola. These structures are dodecahedral assemblages of proteins P1, P2, P4, and P7. We report in this paper that these particles are capable of packaging viral single-stranded plus-sense RNA in vitro. The packaging reaction requires the presence of ATP or dATP. Synthesis of minus strands takes place within this filled procapsid in the presence of all four nucleoside triphosphates. Packaged ssRNA is found to be protected from added ribonuclease.
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- P Gottlieb
- Department of Microbiology, Public Health Research Institute New York, New York 10016
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Olkkonen VM, Gottlieb P, Strassman J, Qiao XY, Bamford DH, Mindich L. In vitro assembly of infectious nucleocapsids of bacteriophage phi 6: formation of a recombinant double-stranded RNA virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1990; 87:9173-7. [PMID: 2251260 PMCID: PMC55126 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.87.23.9173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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A system is described for assembling infectious bacteriophage phi 6 nucleocapsids in vitro. Procapsids encoded by cDNA copies of genomic segment L in Escherichia coli were used to package and replicate viral RNA segments. The resulting filled particles were shown to be capable of infecting host cell spheroplasts after incubation with purified nucleocapsid shell protein P8. The infected spheroplasts yielded infectious virions. A modified cDNA-derived RNA segment was inserted into virions by this method. The resulting infectious virions contained the same 4-base-pair deletion as the modified cDNA. These findings support the contention that the preformed procapsids are the "machine" that replicates the phi 6 genome, by showing that the cDNA-derived procapsids are competent to package and replicate RNA properly.
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- V M Olkkonen
- Department of Genetics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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Ewen ME, Revel HR. RNA-protein complexes responsible for replication and transcription of the double-stranded RNA bacteriophage phi 6. Virology 1990; 178:509-19. [PMID: 2120847 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90348-u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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RNA-protein complexes active for transcription and replication of the double-stranded RNA bacteriophage phi 6 have been partially purified from lysates of infected Pseudomonas phaseolicola. Transcribing particles (filled procapsids) contain the three viral dsRNAs and all four procapsid proteins P1, P2, P4, and P7. Particles with replicase activity contain the same four proteins as well as single plus RNA strands duplexed with various extents of minus strands initiated in vivo. The in vitro replication reaction is insensitive to RNaseA. Sarkosyl destroys transcription complexes but does not reduce the activity of replication complexes, although the latter lose 80% of their P4 and the single-strand RNA template becomes sensitive to RNase. The detection of complexes that replicate small only, or both small and medium, RNA suggests that the RNAs are packaged sequentially in the order small, medium, large.
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- M E Ewen
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Mitchell DB, Both GW. Completion of the genomic sequence of the simian rotavirus SA11: nucleotide sequences of segments 1, 2, and 3. Virology 1990; 177:324-31. [PMID: 2162107 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90487-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The nucleotide sequences for gene segments 1, 2, and 3 of the simian rotavirus SA11 genome, coding for the structural polypeptides VP1, VP2, and VP3, respectively, have been determined. Comparison of the VP1 and VP2 amino acid sequences with those determined for other strains indicates that certain features of these proteins are conserved. The possible functions of the viral polypeptides VP1, VP2, and VP3 are discussed in the light of enzyme functions known to be present in the rotavirus particle. The complete sequence of the entire SA11 genome, which consists of 11 segments of dsRNA totaling 18,555 nucleotides, has now been determined. This is the first complete sequence available for a rotavirus genome. Each genome segment appears to code for only one primary product; there are no significant, alternative open reading frames which are conserved between strains. Relevant data for each genome segment are tabulated.
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- D B Mitchell
- CSIRO Division of Biotechnology, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, New South Wales, Australia
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- B T Eaton
- Australian Animal Health Laboratory, C.S.I.R.O., Geelong Victoria, Australia
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Gallegos CO, Patton JT. Characterization of rotavirus replication intermediates: a model for the assembly of single-shelled particles. Virology 1989; 172:616-27. [PMID: 2552662 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90204-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The segmented double-stranded (ds)RNA genome of the rotaviruses is replicated asymmetrically with viral mRNA serving as the template for minus-strand RNA synthesis. To identify intermediate structures in rotavirus replication, subviral particles (SVPs) purified from the cytoplasm of simian rotavirus SA11-infected cells were assayed for RNA polymerase activity in a cell-free system that supports viral RNA replication. Intact SVPs containing newly made RNA were resolved by electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions on 0.6% agarose gels (50 mM Tris-glycine, pH 8.8). This gel system was found to separate without disrupting SA11 single- and double-shelled virions and virion-derived core particles. SVPs from the cell-free system that contained newly made dsRNA migrated in the agarose gels at positions between virion-derived cores and intermediate of single- and double-shelled virions. SVPs containing newly made dsRNA were eluted from the gel and analyzed for protein content by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels. The results showed that three distinct types of replication intermediates (RIs) were present in SA11-infected cells. The smallest intermediate (precore RI, 45 nm, 220 S) contained the structural proteins VP1, VP3, and VP9 and the nonstructural proteins NS53, NS35, and NS34. A second intermediate (core RI, 60 nm, 310 S) contained the core proteins VP1, VP2, and VP3 and the proteins VP9, NS35 and NS34. The largest RI (single-shelled RI, 75 nm, 420 S) contained the inner shell proteins VP1, VP2, VP3, and VP6 and the proteins VP9, NS35 and NS34. Analysis of the formation and turnover of RIs in infected cells pulse-labeled with 35S-amino acids supports a hypothesis that rotavirus single-shelled particles are assembled in vivo by the sequential addition of VP2 and VP6 to precore RIs consisting of VP1, VP3, VP9, NS35, and NS34.
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- C O Gallegos
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101
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Johnson MA, McCrae MA. Molecular biology of rotaviruses. VIII. Quantitative analysis of regulation of gene expression during virus replication. J Virol 1989; 63:2048-55. [PMID: 2539501 PMCID: PMC250620 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.63.5.2048-2055.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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A sensitive and quantitative solution hybridization assay recently developed in this laboratory has been applied to the study of the regulation of viral gene expression in rotavirus-infected cells. Measurement of the cumulative level of viral plus-strand (mRNA) synthesis at hourly intervals throughout the growth cycle has provided evidence for both quantitative and qualitative regulation of transcription. Qualitative control was found only when cycloheximide was used to block protein synthesis in infected cells, when transcription of four of the viral genes (genes 5, 6, 7, and 9) was independent of protein synthesis. Quantitative regulation was demonstrated by the accumulation of mRNA to much higher levels for some of the viral genes (e.g., genes 2 and 7) relative to others (e.g., genes 4 and 6). In addition to quantitative control at the level of transcription, measurement of the relative molar amounts of the various viral proteins at 6.5 h postinfection showed that their levels did not directly reflect those of their encoding RNAs, indicating the existence of translational control of gene expression in the rotavirus system. Analysis of the levels of minus strand synthesized for each viral gene showed that they were not all accumulated to the same level. The significance of this result in the light of the presumed similarities in replication strategy to that of the mammalian reoviruses is discussed.
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- M A Johnson
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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To understand the role of viral proteins in the replication of rotavirus RNA, we have characterized the structure of subviral particles (SVPs) that synthesize double-stranded RNA (DS RNA). Pulse-labeling of newly made RNA in infected cells showed that rotavirus DS RNA was synthesized either in single-shell (SS)-like particles or in precursor particles that rapidly mature into SS particles. Experiments using a cell-free system demonstrated that most replicase particles containing newly made DS RNA were of greater density in CsCl than single-shelled (SS) particles. However, this was partly due to the presence of single-stranded RNAs as the treatment of replicase particles with micrococcal nuclease reduced their density to between core particles and SS particles. Electrophoretic analysis indicated that replicase particles, purified by centrifugation on CsCl and glycerol gradients, were similar to SS particles, containing the structural proteins VP1, VP2, and VP6. Rotavirus replicase particles were also found to contain the nonstructural proteins NS34 and NS35 and possible host components. The presence of VP6 in enzymatically active replicase particles suggests that, like transcription, this protein may be required for rotavirus RNA replication.
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- J T Patton
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101
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Ewen ME, Revel HR. In vitro replication and transcription of the segmented double-stranded RNA bacteriophage phi 6. Virology 1988; 165:489-98. [PMID: 3407151 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(88)90593-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In vitro conditions that support viral-specific replication and transcription have been developed from Pseudomonas phaseolicola cells infected with the segmented double-stranded RNA bacteriophage phi 6. Transcription activity, previously shown to occur by semiconservative strand displacement, labeled (+) strands of all three genome segments and produced all three corresponding genome length messenger RNAs. Replication activity for each of the three double-stranded RNA segments is observed. Our criteria for replication were formation of genomic length double-stranded RNA products and at least (-) strand synthesis activity. Mn2+ and Sarkosyl together selectively inhibited transcription. Analysis of replication alone suggested that replication templates are the viral (+) messenger RNAs.
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- M E Ewen
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637
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The genomes of the rotaviruses consist of 11 segments of double-stranded RNA. During RNA replication, the viral plus-strand RNA serves as the template for minus-strand RNA synthesis. To characterize the kinetics of RNA replication, the synthesis and steady-state levels of viral plus- and minus-strand RNA and double-stranded RNA in simian rotavirus SA11-infected MA104 cells were analyzed by electrophoresis on 1.75% agarose gels containing 6 M urea (pH 3.0). Synthesis of viral plus-strand and minus-strand RNAs was detected initially at 3 h postinfection. The steady-state levels of plus- and minus-strand RNAs increased from this time until 9 to 12 h postinfection, at which time the levels were maximal. Pulse-labeling of infected cells with [3H]uridine showed that the ratio of plus- to minus-strand RNA synthesis changed during infection and that the maximal level of minus-strand RNA synthesis occurred several hours prior to the peak of plus-strand RNA synthesis. No direct correlation was found between the levels of plus-strand and minus-strand RNA synthesis in the infected cell. Pulse-labelling studies indicated that both newly synthesized and preexisting plus-strand RNA can act as templates for minus-strand RNA synthesis throughout infection. Studies also showed that less than 1 h was required between the synthesis of minus-strand RNA in vivo and its release from the cell within virions.
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- S Stacy-Phipps
- Department of Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33620
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A cell-free system was developed to study the replication of simian rotavirus SA11. The components of the system included (i) subviral particles prepared from infected cells to template the synthesis of viral RNA and (ii) an mRNA-dependent rabbit reticulocyte lysate to support protein synthesis. Based upon nuclease-sensitivity, approximately 20% of the RNA made in vitro was double-stranded (dsRNA) and 80% single-stranded (ssRNA). Electrophoretic analysis of the RNA products on polyacrylamide and low pH agarose gels showed that the system supported the synthesis of 11 dsRNAs and 11 positive-sense ssRNAs that corresponded in size to authentic viral RNAs. The synthesis of dsRNA in vitro was determined to be an asymmetrical process in which a nuclease-sensitive positive-strand RNA acted as a template for the synthesis of negative-strand RNA. The system also supported the initiation of negative-strand RNA using exogenous viral positive-strand RNA as a template. Finally, analysis of subviral particles recovered from reactions suggested that viral proteins made in vitro assembled into nucleoprotein complexes which were similar to those present in infected cells. Together, these results indicate that the cell-free system supported rotavirus RNA replication, transcription and the assembly of subviral particles.
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Steely HT, Gray DM, Lang D. Study of the circular dichroism of bacteriophage phi 6 and phi 6 nucleocapsid. Biopolymers 1986; 25:171-88. [PMID: 3511978 DOI: 10.1002/bip.360250112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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McCrae MA, McCorquodale JG. Molecular biology of rotaviruses. V. Terminal structure of viral RNA species. Virology 1983; 126:204-12. [PMID: 6302982 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(83)90472-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The terminal structure of rotavirus genomic ds RNA and in vitro transcribed mRNA was investigated using S1 nuclease digestion and 3' terminal sequence analysis. S1 nuclease analysis indicated that viral mRNA was not a truncated copy of the genome RNA at its 5' end. The 3' terminal sequence analysis of genomic plus strands and mRNA showed that they were coterminal indicating that in vitro transcribed mRNA is a full length copy of the genomic template. The sequence analysis performed on isolated viral RNA species plus strands revealed a completely conserved 3' terminal octanucleotide 5'-AUGUGACC-3' present in both UK tissue culture adapted bovine rotavirus and a human rotavirus isolate. Sequencing of isolated genomic minus strands again revealed a completely conserved 3' terminal sequence of approximately the same length as that seen for the viral plus strands.
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Antczak JB, Chmelo R, Pickup DJ, Joklik WK. Sequence at both termini of the 10 genes of reovirus serotype 3 (strain Dearing). Virology 1982; 121:307-19. [PMID: 6927854 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(82)90170-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Emori Y, Iba H, Okada Y. Morphogenetic pathway of bacteriophage phi 6. A flow analysis of subviral and viral particles in infected cells. J Mol Biol 1982; 154:287-310. [PMID: 7077662 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(82)90065-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Bamford DH, Mindich L. Electron microscopy of cells infected with nonsense mutants of bacteriophage phi 6. Virology 1980; 107:222-8. [PMID: 7445427 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(80)90287-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Zarbl H, Hastings KE, Millward S. Reovirus core particles synthesize capped oligonucleotides as a result of abortive transcription. Arch Biochem Biophys 1980; 202:348-60. [PMID: 7458325 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(80)90437-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Bernard J. Drosophila X virus RNA polymerase: tentative model for in vitro replication of the double-stranded virion RNA. J Virol 1980; 33:717-23. [PMID: 6774107 PMCID: PMC288596 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.33.2.717-723.1980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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An RNA polymerase activity was found to be associated with the infectious drosophila X virus particles extracted from infected flies. The rate of synthesis was at first linear as a function of time, and then a plateau was reached. During the linear phase of the synthesis, the template and product were associated as replicative intermediates which were larger than the double-stranded RNA of the drosophila X virus genome, but the final product of the reaction was indistinguishable from the RNA genome with respect to its density, sedimentation coefficient, electrophoretic mobility, and RNase resistance. The results indicated that both strands of the genomic RNA were copied. The implications of these findings with regard to other virion polymerases are discussed.
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Joklik WK. Virus synthesis and replication: reovirus vs. vaccinia virus. THE YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE 1980; 53:27-39. [PMID: 6990634 PMCID: PMC2595841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The strategies with which two viral genomes that consist of double-stranded nucleic acid express themselves in infected cells are compared. The reovirus genome comprises ten segments of double-stranded RNA, each of which is, in essence, a gene. Each is transcribed into plus-stranded RNA which has two functions: to serve as messenger RNA for the synthesis of the ten reovirus "primary" proteins, and to serve as template for the synthesis of minus-strands with which they remain associated, thereby giving rise to progeny double-stranded RNA. One of the most fascinating unsolved features of the reovirus multiplication cycle is the nature of the mechanism that ensures that each progeny virus particle contains a complete set of the ten individual genome RNA segments. The vaccinia virus genome is a linear molecule of double-stranded DNA which possesses sizable terminal redundancies (up to 7 percent, depending on the strain). The vaccinia virus multiplication cycle can be divided into a well-defined early and late period. During the early period, infecting virus particles are first uncoated to cores within which some 40-50 percent of the viral genome is transcribed. These cores are then uncoated further to naked viral DNA, a process that is mediated by protein(s) translated from the "core" messenger RNA. The overall transcription pattern in highly complex and is regulated both at the transcriptional as well as at the translational level. The most profound program changes occur at the time when DNA replication begins, when the transcription of "early" messenger RNAs, some of which are translated into "early" enzymes, gives way to that of "late" messenger RNAs, most of which are translated into structural virus components.
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Bernard JP, Petitjean AM. In vitro synthesis of double stranded RNA by Drosophila X virus purified virions. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1978; 83:763-70. [PMID: 101216 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(78)91460-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Gomatos PJ, Kuechenthal I. Reovirus-specific enzyme(s) associated with subviral particles responds in vitro to polyribocytidylate to yield double-stranded polyribocytidylate-polyriboguanylate. J Virol 1977; 23:80-90. [PMID: 886647 PMCID: PMC515802 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.23.1.80-90.1977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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In reovirus-infected cells, virus-specific particles accumulate that have associated with them a polyribocytidylate [poly(C)]-dependent polymerase. This enzyme copies in vitro poly(C) to yield the double-stranded poly(C).polyriboguanylate [poly(G)]. The particles with poly(C)-dependent polymerase were heterogeneous in size, with most sedimenting from 300S to 550S. Exponential increase in these particles began at 23 h, and maximal amounts were present by 31 h, the time of onset of exponential growth of virus at 30 degrees C. Maximal amounts of particles with active transcriptase and replicase were present at 15 and 18 h after infection. Thereafter, there was a marked decrease in particles with active transcriptase and replicase until base line levels were reached at 31 h. Thus, the increase in poly(C)-responding particles occurred coincident with the decrease in particles with active transcriptase and replicase. The requirement for poly(C) as template was specific because no RNA was synthesized in vitro in response to any other homopolymer, including 2'-O-methyl-poly(C). Synthesis was optimal in the presence of Mn(2+) as the divalent cation, and no primer was necessary for synthesis. In contrast, the dinucleotide GpG markedly stimulated synthesis in the presence of 8 mM Mg(2+). The size of the poly(C).poly(G) synthesized in vitro was dependent on the size of the poly(C) used as template. This suggested that the whole template was copied into a complementary strand of similar size. The T(m) of the product was between 100 and 130 degrees C. Hydrolysis of the product labeled in [(32)P]GMP with alkali or RNase T2 yielded GMP as the only labeled mononucleotide. This does indicate that the synthesis of the poly(G) strand in vitro did not proceed by end addition to the poly(C) template, but proceeded on a separate strand.
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Morgan EM, Zweerink HJ. Characterization of the double-stranded RNA in replicase particles in reovirus-infected cells. Virology 1977; 77:421-3. [PMID: 841868 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(77)90440-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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