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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 9 4009-4023
© 1988

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Autolytic processing of a phosphorothioate diester bond

Jamal M. Buzayan, Paul A. Feldstein, Carmen Segrelles and George Bruening

Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California Davis, CA 95616, USA

Received August 17, 1987. Revised December 29, 1987. Accepted December 29, 1987.

A small satellite RNA of tobacco ringspot virus replicates in tissues infected with tobacco ringspot virus and accumulates in virus capsids, forming virus-like particles. Previous research showed that multimeric forms of this satellite RNA have tandem repeats of the "monomeric" satellite RNA sequence of 359 or 360 nucleotide residues. The multimeric RNAs undergo autolytic processing at a specific CpA phosphodiester bond, the junction, to generate the monomeric RNA. We substituted phosphorothioate diester bonds for various sets of phosphodiester bonds, in dimeric and truncated forms of the satellite RNA. The degree of reduction in autolytic cleavage varied both with the sites of substitution and the size of the RNA molecules. Analyses of a product of the autolysis reaction suggest that one phosphorothioate diester bond most strongly interferes with processing, the one introduced at the CpA junction during its synthesis from adenosine-5'-0-(1-thiotriphosphate). However, extensive introduction of phosphorothioate diester bonds elsewhere in the molecule also decreased processing, possibly by altering conformation.


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