Five pseudoknots are present at the 204 nucleotides long 3' noncoding region of tobacco mosaic virus RNA.
AUTOR(ES)
van Belkum, A
RESUMO
The 104 nucleotides long 3' terminal region of TMV RNA was shown previously to contain two pseudoknotted structures (Rietveld et al. (1984), EMBO J. 3, 2613-2619). We here present evidence for the occurrence, within the 204 nucleotides long 3' noncoding region, of another highly structured domain located immediately adjacent to the tRNA-like structure of 95 nucleotides (Joshi et al. (1985) Nucleic Acids Res. 13, 347-354). A model for the three-dimensional folding of this region, containing three more pseudoknots, is proposed on the basis of chemical modification and enzymatic digestion. The existence of these three consecutive pseudoknots was supported by sequence comparisons with the RNA from the related tobamoviruses TMV-L, CcTMV and CGMMV. Coaxial stacking of the six double helical segments involved gives rise to the formation of a 25 basepair long quasi-continuous double helix. The results show that the three-dimensional folding of the 3' non-translated region of tobamoviral RNAs is largely maintained by the formation of five pseudoknots. The organisation of this region in the RNA of the tobamovirus CcTMV suggests that recombinational events among aminoacylatable plant viral RNAs have to be considered.
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