Functional characterization of cleavage-defective mutants of encephalomyocarditis virus.
AUTOR(ES)
Young, S A
RESUMO
We characterized seven temperature-sensitive capsid cleavage (cleavage-defective) mutants of encephalomyocarditis virus. Our experimental approach was to monitor in vitro proteolysis reactions of either wild-type or cleavage-defective mutant capsid precursors mixed with cell-free translation products (containing the viral protease) of either wild-type or mutant viral RNA. The cell-free translation reactions and in vitro proteolysis reactions were done at 38 degrees C, because at this temperature cleavage of the capsid precursors was restricted in reactions containing cleavage-defective mutant viral RNA as the message, relative to those reactions containing wild-type viral RNA as the message. Wild-type or cleavage-defective mutant capsid precursors were prepared by adding cycloheximide to cell-free translation reactions primed with wild-type or mutant viral RNA, respectively, 12 min after the initiation of translation. In vitro proteolysis of wild-type capsid precursors with cell-free translation products of either wild-type or cleavage-defective mutant viral RNA led to similar products at 38 degrees C, indicating that the cleavage-defective mutant viral protease was not temperature sensitive. As a corollary to this, at 38 degrees C cleavage-defective mutant capsid precursors were not cleaved as completely as were wild-type capsid precursors by products of cell-free translation of wild-type viral RNA. The results from these in vitro proteolysis experiments indicate that all seven of the cleavage-defective mutants have capsid precursors with a temperature-sensitive configuration.
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