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Miedziak B, Dobieżyńska A, Darżynkiewicz ZM, Bartkowska J, Miszkiewicz J, Kowalska J, Warminski M, Tyras M, Trylska J, Jemielity J, Darzynkiewicz E, Grzela R. Kinetic analysis of IFIT1 and IFIT5 interactions with different native and engineered RNAs and its consequences for designing mRNA-based therapeutics. RNA 2020; 26:58-68. [PMID: 31658992 PMCID: PMC6913129 DOI: 10.1261/rna.073304.119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 10/24/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In response to foreign RNA, cellular antiviral mechanisms stimulate high expression of interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide repeats (IFITs). Two members of the IFIT protein family, IFIT1 and IFIT5, are capable of binding the very terminal 5' end of mRNA. In eukaryotes, these mRNA termini contain a cap structure (m7GpppN, cap 0) that is often subjected to further modifications. Here, we performed a thorough examination of IFIT1 and IFIT5 binding to a wide spectrum of differently capped as well as fully uncapped mRNAs. The kinetic analysis of IFIT1 and IFIT5 interactions with mRNA ligands indicates that the cap structure modifications considerably influence the stability of IFIT1/RNA complexes. The most stable complexes were formed between IFIT1 and GpppG/A- and m7GpppG/A-RNAs. Unexpectedly, we found that NAD+- and NADH-capped RNAs associate with IFIT5 with kinetic parameters comparable to pppG-RNA. Finally, we measured interactions of IFIT1 with mRNAs bearing modified synthetic cap analogs that start to become the important tools in biotechnological and medicinal research. We found that incorporation of modified cap analogs to the RNA protects the latter, to a certain degree, from the translational inhibition caused by IFIT1 protein.
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- Beata Miedziak
- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
- Division of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
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Kang ST, Leu JH, Wang HC, Chen LL, Kou GH, Lo CF. Polycistronic mRNAs and internal ribosome entry site elements (IRES) are widely used by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) structural protein genes. Virology 2009; 387:353-63. [PMID: 19285701 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2008] [Revised: 01/06/2009] [Accepted: 02/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The genome of the white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) Taiwan isolate has many structural and non-structural genes that are arranged in clusters. Screening with Northern blots showed that at least four of these clusters produce polycistronic mRNA, and one of these (vp31/vp39b/vp11) was studied in detail. The vp31/vp39b/vp11 cluster produces two transcripts, including a large 3.4-kb polycistronic transcript of all three genes. No monocistronic vp39b mRNA was detected. TNT and in vitro translation assays showed that vp39b translation was independent of vp31 translation, and that ribosomal reinitiation was not a possible mechanism for vp39b. An unusually located IRES (internal ribosome entry site) element was identified in the vp31/vp39b coding region, and this region was able to promote the expression of a downstream firefly luciferase reporter. We show that vp31/vp39b/vp11 is representative of many other WSSV structural/non-structural gene clusters, and argue that these are also likely to produce polycistronic mRNAs and that use an IRES mechanism to regulate their translation.
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- Shih-Ting Kang
- Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Egloff MP, Decroly E, Malet H, Selisko B, Benarroch D, Ferron F, Canard B. Structural and functional analysis of methylation and 5'-RNA sequence requirements of short capped RNAs by the methyltransferase domain of dengue virus NS5. J Mol Biol 2007; 372:723-36. [PMID: 17686489 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2007] [Revised: 07/02/2007] [Accepted: 07/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The N-terminal 33 kDa domain of non-structural protein 5 (NS5) of dengue virus (DV), named NS5MTase(DV), is involved in two of four steps required for the formation of the viral mRNA cap (7Me)GpppA(2'OMe), the guanine-N7 and the adenosine-2'O methylation. Its S-adenosyl-l-methionine (AdoMet) dependent 2'O-methyltransferase (MTase) activity has been shown on capped (7Me+/-)GpppAC(n) RNAs. Here we report structural and binding studies using cap analogues and capped RNAs. We have solved five crystal structures at 1.8 A to 2.8 A resolution of NS5MTase(DV) in complex with cap analogues and the co-product of methylation S-adenosyl-l-homocysteine (AdoHcy). The cap analogues can adopt several conformations. The guanosine moiety of all cap analogues occupies a GTP-binding site identified earlier, indicating that GTP and cap share the same binding site. Accordingly, we show that binding of (7Me)GpppAC(4) and (7Me)GpppAC(5) RNAs is inhibited in the presence of GTP, (7Me)GTP and (7Me)GpppA but not by ATP. This particular position of the cap is in accordance with the 2'O-methylation step. A model was generated of a ternary 2'O-methylation complex of NS5MTase(DV), (7Me)GpppA and AdoMet. RNA-binding increased when (7Me+/-)GpppAGC(n-1) starting with the consensus sequence GpppAG, was used instead of (7Me+/-)GpppAC(n). In the NS5MTase(DV)-GpppA complex the cap analogue adopts a folded, stacked conformation uniquely possible when adenine is the first transcribed nucleotide at the 5' end of nascent RNA, as it is the case in all flaviviruses. This conformation cannot be a functional intermediate of methylation, since both the guanine-N7 and adenosine-2'O positions are too far away from AdoMet. We hypothesize that this conformation mimics the reaction product of a yet-to-be-demonstrated guanylyltransferase activity. A putative Flavivirus RNA capping pathway is proposed combining the different steps where the NS5MTase domain is involved.
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- Marie-Pierre Egloff
- Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, CNRS and Universités d'Aix-Marseille I et II, UMR 6098, ESIL Case 925, 13288 Marseille, France
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Kalek M, Jemielity J, Grudzien E, Zuberek J, Bojarska E, Cohen LS, Stepinski J, Stolarski R, Davis RE, Rhoads RE, Darzynkiewicz E. Synthesis and biochemical properties of novel mRNA 5' cap analogs resistant to enzymatic hydrolysis. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2005; 24:615-21. [PMID: 16247999 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-200060091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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A series of new dinucleotide cap analogs with methylene groups replacing oxygens within the pyrophosphate moieties have been synthesized. All the compounds were resistant to the human scavenger decapping hydrolase, DcpS. Binding constants of the modified caps to eIF4E are comparable to those obtained for m7GpppG. This suggests these methylene modifications in the pyrophosphate chain do not significantly affect cap-binding at least for eIF4E. These cap analogs are also good inhibitors of in vitro translation. mRNAs capped with novel analogs were translated similarly to the mRNA capped with the parent m7GpppG.
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- Marcin Kalek
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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Stepinski J, Zuberek J, Jemielity J, Kalek M, Stolarski R, Darzynkiewicz E. Novel dinucleoside 5',5'-triphosphate cap analogues. Synthesis and affinity for murine translation factor eIF4E. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2005; 24:629-33. [PMID: 16248001 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-200060103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Chemical synthesis of a series of novel dinucleoside cap analogues, m7GpppN, where N is formycin A, 3'-O-methylguanosine, 9-beta-D-arabinofuranosyladenine, and isoguanosine, has been performed using our new methodology. The key reactions of pyrophosphate bonds formation were achieved in anhydrous dimethylformamide solutions employing the catalytic properties of zinc salts. Structures of the new cap analogues were confirmed by 1H NMR and 31p NMR spectra. The binding affinity of the new cap analogues for murine eIF4E(28-217) were determined spectroscopically showing the highest association constant for the analogue that contains formycin A.
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- Janusz Stepinski
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, ul. Zwirki i Wigury 93, Warsaw 02-089, Poland.
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Lewdorowicz M, Yoffe Y, Zuberek J, Jemielity J, Stepinski J, Kierzek R, Stolarski R, Shapira M, Darzynkiewicz E. Chemical synthesis and binding activity of the trypanosomatid cap-4 structure. RNA 2004; 10:1469-78. [PMID: 15273325 PMCID: PMC1370633 DOI: 10.1261/rna.7510504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Leishmania and other trypanosomatids are early eukaryotes that possess unusual molecular features, including polycistronic transcription and trans-splicing of pre-mRNAs. The spliced leader RNA (SL RNA) is joined to the 5' end of all mRNAs, thus donating a 5' cap that is characterized by complex modifications. In addition to the conserved m7GTP, linked via a 5'-5'-triphosphate bound to the first nucleoside of the mRNA, the trypanosomatid 5' cap includes 2'-O methylations on the first four ribose moieties and unique base methylations on the first adenine and the fourth uracil, resulting in the cap-4 structure, m7Gpppm3(6,6,2')Apm2'Apm2' Cpm2(3,2')U, as reported elsewhere previously. A library of analogs that mimic the cap structure to different degrees has been synthesized. Their differential affinities to the cap binding proteins make them attractive compounds for studying the molecular basis of cap recognition, and in turn, they may have potential therapeutic significance. The interactions between cap analogs and eIF4E, a cap-binding protein that plays a key role in initiation of translation, can be monitored by measuring intrinsic fluorescence quenching of the tryptophan residues. In the present communication we describe the multistep synthesis of the trypanosomatid cap-4 structure. The 5' terminal mRNA tetranucleotide fragment (pm3(6,6,2')Apm2'Apm2'Cpm2(3,2')U) was synthesized by the phosphoramidite solid phase method. After deprotection and purification, the 5'-phosphorylated tetranucleotide was chemically coupled with m7GDP to yield the cap-4 structure. Biological activity of this newly synthesized compound was confirmed in binding studies with eIF4E from Leishmania that we recently cloned (LeishIF4E-1), using the fluorescence time-synchronized titration method.
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- Magdalena Lewdorowicz
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Experimental Physics, Warsaw University, 93 Zwirki and Wigury St., 02-089, Poland
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Hara K, Maruki Y, Long X, Yoshino KI, Oshiro N, Hidayat S, Tokunaga C, Avruch J, Yonezawa K. Raptor, a binding partner of target of rapamycin (TOR), mediates TOR action. Cell 2002; 110:177-89. [PMID: 12150926 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00833-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1334] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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mTOR controls cell growth, in part by regulating p70 S6 kinase alpha (p70alpha) and eukaryotic initiation factor 4E binding protein 1 (4EBP1). Raptor is a 150 kDa mTOR binding protein that also binds 4EBP1 and p70alpha. The binding of raptor to mTOR is necessary for the mTOR-catalyzed phosphorylation of 4EBP1 in vitro, and it strongly enhances the mTOR kinase activity toward p70alpha. Rapamycin or amino acid withdrawal increases, whereas insulin strongly inhibits, the recovery of 4EBP1 and raptor on 7-methyl-GTP Sepharose. Partial inhibition of raptor expression by RNA interference (RNAi) reduces mTOR-catalyzed 4EBP1 phosphorylation in vitro. RNAi of C. elegans raptor yields an array of phenotypes that closely resemble those produced by inactivation of Ce-TOR. Thus, raptor is an essential scaffold for the mTOR-catalyzed phosphorylation of 4EBP1 and mediates TOR action in vivo.
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- Kenta Hara
- Biosignal Research Center, Kobe University, 657-8501, Kobe, Japan.
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Ali IK, McKendrick L, Morley SJ, Jackson RJ. Activity of the hepatitis A virus IRES requires association between the cap-binding translation initiation factor (eIF4E) and eIF4G. J Virol 2001; 75:7854-63. [PMID: 11483729 PMCID: PMC115028 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.17.7854-7863.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The question of whether translation initiation factor eIF4E and the complete eIF4G polypeptide are required for initiation dependent on the IRES (internal ribosome entry site) of hepatitis A virus (HAV) has been examined using in vitro translation in standard and eIF4G-depleted rabbit reticulocyte lysates. In agreement with previous publications, the HAV IRES is unique among all picornavirus IRESs in that it was inhibited if translation initiation factor eIF4G was cleaved by foot-and-mouth disease L-proteases. In addition, the HAV IRES was inhibited by addition of eIF4E-binding protein 1, which binds tightly to eIF4E and sequesters it, thus preventing its association with eIF4G. The HAV IRES was also inhibited by addition of m(7)GpppG cap analogue, irrespective of whether the RNA tested was capped or not. Thus, initiation on the HAV IRES requires that eIF4E be associated with eIF4G and that the cap-binding pocket of eIF4E be empty and unoccupied. This suggests two alternative models: (i) initiation requires a direct interaction between an internal site in the IRES and eIF4E/4G, an interaction which involves the cap-binding pocket of eIF4E in addition to any direct eIF4G-RNA interactions; or (ii) it requires eIF4G in a particular conformation which can be attained only if eIF4E is bound to it, with the cap-binding pocket of the eIF4E unoccupied.
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- I K Ali
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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Picornavirus proteases cleave translation initiation factor eIF4G into a C-terminal two-thirds fragment (hereafter named p100) and an N-terminal one-third fragment, which interacts with the cap-binding factor eIF4E. As the timing of this cleavage correlates broadly with the shut-off of host cell protein synthesis in infected cells, a very widespread presumption has been that p100 cannot support capped mRNA translation. Through the use of an eIF4G-depleted reticulocyte lysate system, we show that this presumption is incorrect. Moreover, recombinant p100 can also reverse the inhibition of capped mRNA translation caused either by m7GpppG cap analogue, by 4E-BP1, which sequesters eIF4E and thus blocks its association with eIF4G, or by cleavage of endogenous eIF4G by picornavirus proteases. The concentration of p100 required for maximum translation of capped mRNAs is approximately 4-fold higher than the endogenous eIF4G concentration in reticulocyte lysates. Our results imply that picornavirus-induced shut-off is not due to an intrinsic inability of p100 to support capped mRNA translation, but to the viral RNA outcompeting host cell mRNA for the limiting concentration of p100.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA and
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA and
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA and
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK Corresponding author e-mail:
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Kuge H. [Translational control of maternal mRNA by poly(A) tail elongation and cap ribose methylation]. Tanpakushitsu Kakusan Koso 1999; 44:1497-502. [PMID: 10481606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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- H Kuge
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Kochi Medical School, Japan.
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Pugachev KV, Abernathy ES, Frey TK. Improvement of the specific infectivity of the rubella virus (RUB) infectious clone: determinants of cytopathogenicity induced by RUB map to the nonstructural proteins. J Virol 1997; 71:562-8. [PMID: 8985384 PMCID: PMC191085 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.1.562-568.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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A plasmid, Robo102, which contains a cDNA copy of the rubella virus (RUB) genomic RNA from which infectious transcripts can be synthesized in vitro, was recently developed (C. Y. Wang, G. Dominguez, and T. K. Frey, J. Virol. 68:3550-3557, 1994). To increase the specific infectivity of Robo102 transcripts (approximately 5 plaques/10 microg of transcripts), a modified reverse transcription-PCR method was used to amplify nearly 90% of the RUB genome in three fragments, which were then used to replace the corresponding fragments in Robo102. Replacement of a fragment covering nucleotides (nt) 5352 to 9759 of the RUB genome yielded a construct, Robo202, which produced highly infectious transcripts (10(4) plaques/microg), indicating the presence of an unrecognized deleterious mutation (or mutations) in this region of the Robo102 cDNA. Robo102 was based on the w-Therien strain of RUB, which forms opaque plaques in Vero cells, while the PCR replacement fragments were generated from a variant, f-Therien, which produces clear plaques in Vero cells. Although Robo202 contains over 4,000 nt from f-Therien, Robo202 virus produces opaque plaques. However, when the other two PCR fragments amplified from f-Therien (nt 1 to 1723 and nt 2800 to 5352) were introduced into Robo202, the resulting construct, Robo302, yielded transcripts that produced a virus that formed clear plaques. This indicates that the determinants of plaque morphology map to the regions of the genome covered by these two fragments, both of which are in the nonstructural open reading frame. Generation of Robo202/302 chimeras indicated that the most 5' terminal fragment (nt. 1 to 1723) had the greatest effect on plaque morphology. The plaque morphology was correlated with the ability of the viruses to kill infected cells. The only difference at the molecular level detected among the viruses was that the more cytopathic viruses produced more nonstructural proteins than did the less cytopathic viruses. This finding, as well as the mapping of the genetic determinants to the region of the genome encoding these proteins, indicates that the nonstructural proteins can mediate cell killing.
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- K V Pugachev
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA
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A cap-binding protein complex (CBC) present in the nuclei of HeLa cells has been characterized. Purified CBC consists of two previously identified proteins, CBP80 and CBP20. These proteins are shown to cofractionate to apparent homogeneity and to be coimmunoprecipitable with anti-CBP80 antibodies. Analysis of the inhibition of pre-mRNA splicing in vitro and in vivo by chemically modified analogs of the cap structure, and of the binding of these analogs to CBC in vitro, suggests a role for the complex in splicing. Extracts immunodepleted of CBC do not efficiently splice an adenoviral pre-mRNA owing to blockage of an early step in splicing complex formation. CBC may therefore play a role in pre-mRNA recognition.
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- E Izaurralde
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
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Ge GY, Zhu S, Bradrick TD, Georghiou S. Fluorometric analysis of the long-wavelength absorption band of N-7 methylated GMP into the constituent bands of the two electronic states. Photochem Photobiol 1990; 51:557-63. [PMID: 2367552 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1990.tb01965.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Steady-state measurements of fluorescence anisotropy are used to resolve the long-wavelength absorption spectrum of 7-methyl guanosine 5'-monophosphate (GMP) in pH 5 buffer at room temperature into component spectra that correspond to the electronic transitions I and II present in that spectral region. We have chosen this derivative of guanine because its fluorescence quantum yield is much greater than that of GMP. It is found that the data are adequately described by a model that involves emission exclusively from state I, with state II converting to it with 100% efficiency. The shape of the absorption spectrum of state II is virtually independent of the angle theta between the absorption transition dipole moments of states I and II, whereas that of state I is dependent on theta. We analyze the data on the basis of the premise that in the short-wavelength region state II is the predominantly absorbing state. This premise is based on studies of single-crystal polarized reflection and linear dichroism from stretched films. The spectral maxima for the two states are found to be at about 290 and 260 nm, respectively. There is also a weak band which is centered at about 245 nm. The oscillator strengths are found to be 0.07, 0.21 and approximately 0.04, for states I, II and that associated with the weak band, respectively. The importance of these findings with regard to the photophysical properties of nucleic acids and calculations of their CD spectra is discussed.
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- G Y Ge
- Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996-1200
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Carberry SE, Darzynkiewicz E, Stepinski J, Tahara SM, Rhoads RE, Goss DJ. A spectroscopic study of the binding of N-7-substituted cap analogues to human protein synthesis initiation factor 4E. Biochemistry 1990; 29:3337-41. [PMID: 2334695 DOI: 10.1021/bi00465a027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The binding of N-7-substituted cap analogues to eIF-4E from human erythrocytes is described. Data presented here indicate that there is a correlation between the tightness of binding of these cap analogues to eIF-4E and their potency as inhibitors of protein synthesis. This result indicates that the inhibitory activity of the cap analogues is strictly a function of the affinity of the analogue for eIF-4E under equilibrium conditions. The pH dependence of binding of the cap analogues to eIF-4E indicates that the enolate form of the cap is preferred, as originally postulated by Rhoads et al. [(1983) Biochemistry 22, 6084-6088]. Data indicate that there are differences in the mode of binding of alkyl-substituted and aryl-substituted cap analogues to eIF-4E arising from favorable interactions of the phenyl ring with the guanosine moiety. These differences may explain the enhanced recognition of the aryl-substituted cap analogues by eIF-4E.
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- S E Carberry
- Department of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York 10021
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Darzynkiewicz E, Lönnberg H. Base stacking of simple mRNA cap analogues. Association of 7,9-dimethylguanine, 7-methylguanosine and 7-methylguanosine 5'-monophosphate with indole and purine derivatives in aqueous solution. Biophys Chem 1989; 33:289-93. [PMID: 2804246 DOI: 10.1016/0301-4622(89)80030-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Equilibrium constants for the association of different ionic forms of 7,9-dimethylguanine, 7-methylguanosine and 7-methylguanosine 5'-monophosphate with indole, caffeine and various methylated adenines have been determined by distributing the latter compounds between an organic solvent and aqueous solutions of the 7-methylguanine derivatives. The data are compared to those obtained for the association of unsubstituted purine with the same cosolutes. The stacking affinity of both cationic and zwitterionic forms of the 7-methylguanine ring correlates with the ring polarizability rather than the polarizing power of the cosolute. The cationic species stacks usually more efficiently. The chemical nature of the N9-substituent has only a moderate influence on the base-stacking properties.
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Edery I, Altmann M, Sonenberg N. High-level synthesis in Escherichia coli of functional cap-binding eukaryotic initiation factor eIF-4E and affinity purification using a simplified cap-analog resin. Gene X 1988; 74:517-25. [PMID: 3246354 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(88)90184-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Numerous studies have established the important role that eukaryotic initiation factor-4E (eIF-4E) plays during protein biosynthesis. However, biochemical characterization of eIF-4E has proved difficult, mainly because of its low abundance in cells. To facilitate studies on eIF-4E, we have overexpressed Saccharomyces cerevisiae eIF-4E in Escherichia coli. The isolation of eIF-4E was simplified by using a cap-analog affinity matrix (agarose resin) that is considerably less demanding to prepare than those previously reported. We describe a simple and rapid purification scheme that can yield 2-5 micrograms of a homogenous and active preparation of eIF-4E from 1 ml of E. coli culture. E. coli-expressed eIF-4E is active as determined by its ability to bind the cap structure. The results demonstrate that the cap-binding activity of eIF-4E is not dependent on the presence of other proteins that are present at low levels in eIF-4E preparations isolated from eukaryotic cells.
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- I Edery
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Ueda H, Doi M, Inoue M, Ishida T, Tanaka T, Uesugi S. A possible recognition mode of mRNA cap terminal structure by peptide: cooperative stacking and hydrogen-bond pairing interactions between m7GpppA and Trp-Leu-Glu. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1988; 154:199-204. [PMID: 3395324 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(88)90670-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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1H-NMR and fluorescence spectroscopic studies on the interaction between the Trp-Leu-Glu and m7GpppA have shown a specific binding mode, in which the pi-pi stacking interaction of the Trp indole ring and the hydrogen-bond pairing of Glu carboxyl side group with 7-methylguanine base are simultaneously formed.
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- H Ueda
- Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan
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Georghiou S, Saim AM. Excited-state properties of DNA methylated at the N-7 position of guanine and its free fluorophore at room temperature. Photochem Photobiol 1986; 44:733-40. [PMID: 3562571 DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1986.tb05531.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Kamiichi K, Danshita M, Minamino N, Doi M, Ishida T, Inoue M. Indole ring binds to 7-methylguanine base by pi-pi stacking interaction. Crystal structure of 7-methylguanosine 5'-monophosphate-tryptamine complex. FEBS Lett 1986; 195:57-60. [PMID: 3943624 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(86)80129-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Strong pi-pi stacking interaction between the indole ring and 7-methylguanine base was shown by X-ray crystal analysis of the 7-methylguanosine 5'-monophosphate-tryptamine complex. This interaction appears to be strengthened by the attachment of ribose and phosphate groups to the base.
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Chu LY, Rhoads RE. Inhibition of cell-free messenger ribonucleic acid translation by 7-methylguanosine 5'-triphosphate: effect of messenger ribonucleic acid concentration. Biochemistry 1980; 19:184-91. [PMID: 7352975 DOI: 10.1021/bi00542a028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Furuichi Y, Morgan MA, Shatkin AJ. Synthesis and translation of mRNA containing 5'-terminal 7-ethylguanosine cap. J Biol Chem 1979; 254:6732-8. [PMID: 447745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Reovirus mRNA synthesis in vitro by the virion-associated RNA polymerase was only slightly (10 to 15%) diminished in the presence of 2 mM S-adenosylethionine. However, methyl group transfer from S-adenosylmethionine (0.05 mM) to the 5'-terminal cap structure, m7GpppGm in this mRNA was markedly inhibited (80%) under these conditions. Replacement of S-adenosylmethionine by S-adenosylethionine (5 mM) yielded mRNAs containing mainly (70%) 5'-terminal e7GpppGe and e7GpppG, but some of the products were unalkylated (5'-GpppG, ppG). The ethylated mRNAs, but not the unalkylated molecules, bound to wheat germ ribosomes and were translated essentially as well as the corresponding methylated mRNAs in wheat germ extracts and in nuclease-treated rabbit reticulocyte lysates. Protein synthesis directed by ethylated mRNAs in wheat germ extract was 80% decreased by 0.1 mM m7GMP. Under conditions of limited initiation, methylated mRNA bound to wheat germ ribosomes preferentially as compared to ethylated mRNA. The results document for the first time the synthesis of ethylated mRNA and support the hypothesis that N7-alkylation of the 5'-guanosine in caps, rather than methylation itself, is important for the enhancing effect of cap on the initiation of eukaryotic protein synthesis.
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Translation of rabbit globin mRNA in a wheat germ protein-synthesizing system is inhibited by the nucleotide 7-methylguanosine-5'-monophosphate (m7G5'p) but not by other guanosine nucleotides without the 7-methyl group or with the phosphate in a different position. Translation of RNA of tobacco mosaic virus and poly(A) + HeLa RNA is also inhibited by m7G5'p. We show that m7G5'p prevents the association of mRNA with ribosomal subunits to form an initiation complex. We propose that m7G5'p interacts with a site on initiation factor(s) or ribosomes which is involved in mRNA recognition, presumably by binding to the 5'-terminal sequence m7G5'ppp. m7G5'p does not inhibit translation of poly(U) and RNA of satellite tobacco necrosis virus, which do not have the 5'-terminal sequence m7G5'ppp. In the case of RNA of satellite tobacco necrosis virus, some stimulation of its translation is consistently observed in the presence of m7G5'p; possible interpretations of this finding are discussed.
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