Binding of Wheat Germ Ribosomes to Fragmented Viral MRNA

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1980 Sep 1

PMID 7420540

Citations 3

Authors

M Kozak

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Abstract

The specificity of binding of wheat germ ribosomes to mRNA was greatly altered by cleavage of the message. Fragmentation of reovirus mRNA allowed wheat germ ribosomes to bind and protect a variety of internal sequences which were not accessible to ribosomes in the intact message. In experiments using the polycistronic mRNA from bacteriophage R17, wheat germ ribosomes bound preferentially at the beginning of the lysis peptide and synthetase cistrons, and at a third site which may be derived from the C-terminal region of the A protein cistron. This result is similar to that reported previously in a mammalian translational system (J.F. Atkins et al., Cell 18:246-256, 1979) except that, in the present study, limited cleavage of the phage RNA was necessary to activate these sites. More extensive fragmentation of R17 RNA permitted wheat germ ribosomes to bind and protect a great many additional sites. Thus, presence of an (exposed) 5'-terminus on an RNA molecule appears to be necessary and sufficient for attachment of eucaryotic ribosomes.

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