An analysis of tobacco mosaic virus replicative structures synthesized in vitro |
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Authors: | Nevin Dale Young Milton Zaitlin |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Summary The RNA structures synthesized in vitro by a crude enzyme complex from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-infected leaves have been analyzed; the major viral-specific products were similar to TMV-replicative form (RF) and-replicative intermediate (RI) in electrophoretic behavior and ribonuclease sensitivity. Synthesis of these RF-like and RI-like structures neither required nor responded to added viral RNA, but did require all four ribonucleotide triphosphates. Enriched radiolabeled RF-like and RI-like RNA fractions were isolated from non-denaturing agarose gels by electroelution and hybridized to a collection of TMV sequences cloned into bacteriophage M13. Enriched RF-RNA hybridized to sequences of both plus and minus polarity, while enriched RI-RNA hybridized only to inserts of minus polarity, indicating only plus strand synthesis in this fraction. Most of the label incorporated into the plus strand of the enriched RF-RNA was found near the 3-end of this strand, while most of the label incorporated into enriched RI-RNA was found several hundred bases from the 5-end of the plus strand.Paper presented at the first International Congress of Plant Molecular Biology (Savannah, GA, 1985). |
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Keywords: | replicative form replicative intermediate molecular hybridization tobacco mosaic virus plant viral replication |
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