The role of Moloney murine leukemia virus RNase H activity in the formation of plus-strand primers.
AUTOR(ES)
Rattray, A J
RESUMO
On the basis of earlier studies with both detergent-disrupted virions (the endogenous reaction) and an in vitro reconstructed reaction, the RNase H activity associated with Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase has been implicated in the generation of plus-strand RNA primers during reverse transcription. Here we used an oligonucleotide extension assay to show that the RNA primers remaining bound to the plus DNA strands initiated at the normal origin in the in vitro reaction are heterogeneous in length. This result indicates that, although a precise cleavage generates the 3' end of the priming RNA, RNase H exhibits less specificity at other break sites. During the endogenous reaction, a kinetic analysis of the synthesis of plus strands corresponding to different regions of the genome suggested that additional sites for the initiation of plus-strand DNA existed upstream of the normal origin. Direct analysis of fragments produced in the endogenous reaction, as well as in the in vitro reaction, confirmed the existence of upstream plus-strand initiation sites. Several of these sites were mapped to the nucleotide level by the oligonucleotide extension method. A comparison of the nucleotide sequences surrounding the upstream initiation sites with the sequence at the normal plus-strand origin revealed common features, which suggests a mechanism for plus-strand priming based on sequence recognition by the RNase H/reverse transcriptase protein. Although primer removal by RNase H is highly efficient for DNA fragments initiated at the normal origin, the RNA primers were inefficiently removed from the fragments initiated at the upstream sites. This result suggests that primer removal, like primer generation, involves sequence recognition by the enzyme.
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