Abstract
The Tomato spotted wilt virus ambisense M- and S-RNA segments contain an A/U-rich intergenic region predicted to form a stable hairpin structure. The site of transcription termination of S-segment encoded N and NSs mRNAs synthesised in an in vitro transcription system was roughly mapped to the 3¿-end of the intergenic hairpin, i.e. position 1568¿1574 for N and position 1852¿1839 for NSs, as determined by RT-PCR cloning and size estimation on Northern blots. This suggests that these viral transcripts contain a predicted stem-loop structure at their 3¿-end. The potential involvement of the 3¿-end structure in transcription termination is discussed
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 125-131 |
Journal | Virus Research |
Volume | 110 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- mosaic-virus
- independent translation
- uukuniemi virus
- punta-toro
- viral-rna
- termini
- transcription
- mechanism
- protein
- initiation