Rous sarcoma virus genome is terminally redundant: the 5' sequence.

AUTOR(ES)

Haseltine, W A

RESUMO

When Rous sarcoma virus RNA is transcribed into DNA by the reverse transcriptase, a tRNA primer is elongated into DNA. The primer is near the 5' end of the virus genome; the first major DNA made is a "run-off" product extending 101 bases from the primer to the 5' end of the template. We have studied this DNA molecule to determine the sequence of the first 101 bases at the 5' end of the Rous sarcoma virus genome (Prague strain, subgroup C). Twenty-one bases at the extreme 5' end are also at the 3' end of the virus genome (see D. E. Schwartz, P. C. Zamecnik, and H. L. Weith, this issue, pp. 994-998), and thus this virus is terminally redundant. The existence of this sequence repetition immediately suggests mechanisms by which the growing DNA copy can jump from the 5' end to a 3' end of the template and become circular. The sequence also displays a possible ribosome binding site and enough secondary structure to permit a possible 5'-5' linkage of viral RNA molecules.

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