A Short Autocomplementary Sequence in the 5' Leader Region Is Responsible for Dimerization of MoMuLV Genomic RNA
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 34 (30), 9785-9794
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00030a016
Abstract
Previous work has shown that a region of Moloney murine leukemia virus (MoMuLV) RNA located between nucleotides 280 and 330 in the PSI region (nt 215-565) is implicated in the dimerization process. We show with a deletion from nucleotides 290-299 in PSI RNA transcripts and through an antisense oligonucleotide complementary to nucleotides 275-291 that the 283-298 region is involved in RNA dimer formation in vitro. In an attempt to further characterize the mechanism of dimer formation, a series of short RNA transcripts was synthesized which overlapps the PSI region of MoMuLV RNA. The dimerization of these RNAs is temperature dependent. The predicted secondary structure of the 278-303 region, as a function of temperature, reveals that this sequence is able to adopt two conformations: (1) the U288 AGCUA293 sequence in a loop; (2) part of the same nucleotides implicated in a stem. These results, together with thermodynamic analysis, strongly suggest that (1) the loop conformation of the UAGCUA sequence modulates the relative amount of RNA dimer and (2) a 16 bp long Watson-Crick base pairing is involved in RNA dimer formation. We propose that loop-loop recognition via the U288 AGCUA293 sequence leads to a stable structure induced by a stem-loop opening. Furthermore, our results do not support purine quartet formation as necessary for the dimerization of the 5' leader MoMuLV RNA.Keywords
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