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. 1988 Mar;62(3):944-53.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.62.3.944-953.1988.

Both VP2 and VP3 are synthesized from each of the alternative spliced late 19S RNA species of simian virus 40

P J Good  1 , R C Welch, A Barkan, M B Somasekhar, J E Mertz
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Both VP2 and VP3 are synthesized from each of the alternative spliced late 19S RNA species of simian virus 40

P J Good et al. J Virol. 1988 Mar.

Abstract

The late 19S RNAs of simian virus 40 consist of a family of alternatively spliced RNAs, each of which contains open reading frames corresponding to all three of the virion proteins. Two approaches were used to test the hypothesis that each alternatively spliced 19S RNA species is translated to synthesize preferentially only one of the virion proteins. First, we analyzed the synthesis of virion proteins in simian virus 40 mutant-infected monkey cells that accumulate predominantly either only one spliced 19S RNA species or only the 19S RNAs. Second, we determined the virion proteins synthesized in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate programmed with specific, in vitro-transcribed 19S RNA species. These results indicated that VP2 and VP3, but not VP1, are synthesized from all 19S RNA species. Quantitative analysis of these data indicated that individual 19S RNA species containing a translation initiation signal upstream of the VP2 AUG codon were translated in a cell extract three- to fivefold less efficiently than were 19S RNA species lacking this signal and that the precise rate of synthesis of VP2 relative to VP3 varied somewhat with the sequence of the leader region. These data are consistent with the synthesis of VP2 and VP3 occurring by a leaky scanning mechanism in which initiation of translation at a specific AUG codon is affected by both (i) the intrinsic efficiency of ribosomes recognizing the sequences surrounding the AUG codon as an initiation signal and (ii) partial interference from 5'-proximal initiation signals and their corresponding open reading frames.

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