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Complementarity-directed RNA dimer-linkage promotes retroviral recombination in vivo.

Abstract：

:Retroviral particles contain a dimeric RNA genome, which serves as template for the generation of double-stranded DNA by reverse transcription. Transfer between RNA strands during DNA synthesis is governed by both sequence similarity between templates and structural features of the dimeric RNA. A kissing hairpin, believed to facilitate intermolecular recognition and dimer formation, was previously found to be a preferred site for recombination. To investigate if hairpin loop-loop-complementarity is the primary determinant for this recombination preference, we have devised a novel 5' leader recombination assay based upon co-packaging of two wild-type or loop-modified murine leukemia virus vector RNAs. We found that insertion of an alternative palindromic loop in one of the two vectors disrupted site-directed template switching, whereas site-specificity was restored between vectors with complementary non-wild-type palindromes. By pairing vector RNAs that contained identical non-palindromic loop motifs and that were unlikely to interact by loop-loop kissing, we found no preference for recombination at the kissing hairpin site. Of vector pairs designed to interact through base pairing of non-palindromic loop motifs, we could in one case restore hairpin-directed template switching, in spite of the reduced sequence identity, whereas another pair failed to support hairpin- directed recombination. However, analyses of in vitro RNA dimerization of all studied vector combinations showed a good correlation between efficient dimer formation between loop-modified viral RNAs and in vivo cDNA transfer at the kissing hairpin. Our findings demonstrate that complementarity between wild-type or non-wild-type hairpin kissing loops is essential but not sufficient for site-specific 5' leader recombination and lend further support to the hypothesis that a specific 'kissing' loop-loop interaction is guided by complementary sequences and maintained within the mature dimeric RNA of retroviruses.

journal_name

Nucleic Acids Res

journal_title

Nucleic acids research

authors

Mikkelsen JG,Rasmussen SV,Pedersen FS

doi

10.1093/nar/gkh159

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pub_date

2004-01-09 00:00:00

pages

102-14

issue

eissn

0305-1048

issn

1362-4962

pii

32/1/102

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Complementarity-directed RNA dimer-linkage promotes retroviral recombination in vivo.