Article
Repair of the tRNA-like CCA sequence in a multipartite positive-strand RNA virus.
Journal of virology - 1 Feb 2005
Hema M, Gopinath K, Kao C
Abstract excerpt
The 3' portions of plus-strand brome mosaic virus (BMV) RNAs mimic cellular tRNAs. Nucleotide substitutions or deletions in the 3'CCA of the tRNA-like sequence (TLS) affect minus-strand initiation unless repaired. We observed that 2-nucleotide deletions involving the CCA 3' sequence in one or all BMV RNAs still allowed RNA accumulation in barley protoplasts at significant levels. Alterations of CCA to GGA in only...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Bromovirus
- Hordeum
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Protoplasts
- RNA, Transfer
- RNA, Viral
- Sequence Deletion
