TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE SHUT-OFF OF ALPHAVIRUS MINUS STRAND RNA-SYNTHESIS MAPS TO A NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN, NSP4

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SAWICKI, DL [1 ]
BARKHIMER, DB [1 ]
SAWICKI, SG [1 ]
RICE, CM [1 ]
SCHLESINGER, S [1 ]
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[1] WASHINGTON UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT MOLEC MICROBIOL,ST LOUIS,MO 63110
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10.1016/0042-6822(90)90052-S
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Minus strand RNA synthesis by the positive strand alphaviruses, Sindbis and Semliki Forest viruses, normally occurs early in infection, is coupled to synthesis of viral nonstructural proteins and to formation of viral replication complexes, and terminates and does not occur late in infection. Previously, ts24 of the A complementation group of Sindbis virus RNA-negative mutants was found to possess, among its other temperature sensitive defects, a temperature sensitivity in the normal cessation of minus strand synthesis which enabled minus strands to be synthesized late in infection at 40° in the absence of protein synthesis. Revenants of ts24 (ts24R1, ts24R2) retained the defect in the shutoff of minus strand synthesis, indicating the lesion was not conditionally lethal and could map outside the A cistron. The studies reported here used an infectious clone of Sindbis virus to identify the mutation responsible for this phenotype. Hybrid viruses were prepared from constructs containing restriction fragments of the cDNA of ts24R1 in place of the corresponding fragments in the infectious SIN HR clone and screened for their ability to synthesize minus strands at 40° in the presence of cycloheximide. A unique base change of an A for a C residue at nt 6339, predicting a change from glutamine to lysine at amino acid 195 in nsP4, was found in genomes of ts24, ts24R1, and ts24R2. Other nucleotide changes present at the 5′ and 3′ termini did not affect minus strand synthesis. The substitution of the parental Sindbis virus sequence that encompassed nt 6339 in an infectious clone of the ts24R1 revertant eliminated the mutant phenotype. We conclude that the ability to continue minus strand synthesis at 40° exhibited by ts24 and its revenants is caused by an alteration in nsP4, which is the alphavirus replicase or an essential component of the replicase. We hypothesize that this domain of nsP4 functions to fix the minus strand as the stable template of alphavirus replication complexes. © 1990.
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