Ribosome shunt is essential for infectivity of cauliflower mosaic virus
AUTOR(ES)
Pooggin, Mikhail M.
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences
RESUMO
Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) is a DNA-containing pararetrovirus replicating by means of reverse transcription of a terminally redundant pregenomic 35S RNA that is also used as a polycistronic mRNA. The leader of 35S RNA is long, highly structured, and contains multiple short ORFs (sORFs), which strongly interfere with the ribosome scanning process. Translation of this RNA is initiated by a ribosome shunt mechanism, in which ribosomes translate the most 5′-proximal short ORF (sORF A), then skip a large region of the leader containing a putative RNA encapsidation signal and reinitiate translation at the first long viral ORF. Here, we demonstrate that the efficiency of the sORF A-mediated ribosome shunt is an important determinant of viral infectivity. Point mutations in sORF A, which reduced the basal level of shunt-dependent expression and the degree of shunt enhancement by a CaMV-encoded translation transactivator (TAV), consequently reduced infectivity of the virus in turnip plants. First- or second-site reversions appeared in the viral progeny. The second-site reversions restored shuntdependent expression to an extent correlating with their relative abundance in the progeny. Mutations that abolished both the basal and TAV-activated components of shunting proved to be lethal. Finally, by using an artificial stem structure that blocks scanning, we obtained direct evidence that ribosome shunt operates during CaMV infection.
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