Development of a recombinant RNA technique for the construction of chimeric RNA with a long poly(C) tract.

AUTOR(ES)

Bae, Y S

RESUMO

The murine cardioviruses and bovine aphthoviruses are distinguished from other (+) strand RNA viruses by their long poly(C) tract in the 5'-noncoding region. The presence of this poly(C) tract has long hampered the construction of full-length cDNA with the complete poly(C) tract, because long poly(dC-dG) homopolymer-containing plasmids are difficult to amplify in bacterial systems. To overcome this problem, we constructed a chimeric RNA by joining the poly(C) region of the viral RNA to the 5'-truncated RNA transcript of the encephalomyocarditis (EMC) virus cDNA. The non-chimeric, recombinant EMC virus with a short poly(C) tract produces recombinant progeny virus, but this is not pathogenic in vivo. On the other hand, the EMC viral RNA chimera with the complete poly(C) tract produces recombinant progeny virus that is pathogenic in vivo. This method of viral RNA construction will be invaluable for functional studies of other cardioviruses and aphthoviruses, as well as for recombinant RNA manipulations.

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