Translation Mechanism in Production of Cocksfoot Mottle Virus Proteins
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Supervisor: Docent Kristiina Mäkinen Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology University of Helsinki Finland Reviewers: Docent Maija Vihinen-Ranta Department of Biological and Environmental Science University of Jyväskylä Finland And Professor Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene University of Helsinki Finland Opponent: Professor W. Allen Miller Plant Pathology Department Iowa State University USA 3/2006 ISBN 952-10-3016-X (paperback) ISBN 952-10-3017-8 (PDF, online) ISSN 1795-7079 (paperback) ISSN 1795-8229 (PDF, online) Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy Vaajakoski 2006 To my family ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS I Mäkeläinen K., Aspegren K., Wahlström E., Teeri T.H., and Mäkinen K. Comparison of the translational properties of Cocksfoot mottle virus 5’leader sequence with known translational enhancers from other plant viruses. (Manuscript) II Mäkeläinen K., and Mäkinen K. Testing of internal initiation via dicistronic constructs is complicated by production of extraneous transcripts. (Submitted) III Mäkinen K., Mäkeläinen K., Arshava N., Tamm T., Merits A., Truve E., Zavriev S., and Saarma M. 2000. Characterization of VPg and the polyprotein processing of Cocksfoot mottle virus (genus Sobemovirus). J. Gen. Virol. 81: 2783-2789. IV Lucchesi J., Mäkeläinen K., Merits A., Tamm T., and Mäkinen K. 2000. Regulation of –1 ribosomal frameshifting directed by Cocksfoot mottle sobemovirus genome. Eur. J. Biochem. 267: 3523-3529. V Mäkeläinen K., and Mäkinen K. 2005. Factors affecting translation at the programmed –1 ribosomal frameshifting site of Cocksfoot mottle virus RNA in vivo. Nucleic Acids Res. 33: 2239-2247. Also unpublished data will be presented. CONTENTS LIST OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS ABBREVIATIONS ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................ 1 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 2 1.1 TRANSLATION INITIATION ..................................................................... 3 1.1.1 Regulation of translation initiation during virus infection .......................6 1.1.2 Plant viral translational enhancers ........................................................... 7 1.1.3 Internal ribosome entry sites (IRESs) ..................................................... 9 1.1.3.1 Mechanism of IRES-mediated translation initiation ................. 10 1.1.3.2 IRES trans-acting factors (ITAFs) ............................................ 11 1.1.4 Leaky scanning ...................................................................................... 12 1.1.5 Reinitiation ............................................................................................ 12 1.1.6 SgRNAs ................................................................................................. 13 1.2 TRANSLATION ELONGATION ............................................................... 13 1.2.1 Regulation of elongation ....................................................................... 15 1.2.2 Programmed -1 ribosomal frameshifting (-1 PRF) ............................... 16 1.2.2.1 The -1 PRF signals .................................................................... 17 1.2.2.2 Mechanism of -1 PRF ............................................................... 19 1.3 TERMINATION OF TRANSLATION ...................................................... 21 1.3.1 Programmed termination codon readthrough ........................................ 22 1.4 POSTTRANSLATIONAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION .. 22 1.4.1 Polyprotein processing .......................................................................... 23 1.4.2 Viral proteases ....................................................................................... 24 2. AIMS OF THE STUDY ........................................................................................ 26 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS .......................................................................... 27 4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ............................................................................ 31 4.1 Translation initiation from CfMV RNA .................................................... 31 4.1.1 Comparison of protein production from CfMVε with known plant viral translational enhancers (I) ............................................................. 31 4.1.2 Identifi cation of regions important for gene expression from CfMVε in barley suspension cells (I) ............................................................. 32 4.1.3 Transient expression from in vitro transcribed mRNAs (I) ................... 34 4.1.4 Functioning of viral leader sequences in S. cerevisiae (II) ................... 34 4.1.5 Translational properties of CfMVε in vitro (I) ...................................... 35 4.1.6 Contribution of CfMV 3’UTR on translation initiation from CfMVε (I, unpublished) ................................................................................. 37 4.2 Does CfMVε promote internal initiation of translation? ......................... 38 4.2.1 Studies on internal initiation in WGE (I) .............................................. 38 4.2.2 Internal initiation in barley suspension cells (unpublished) .................. 42 4.2.3 Internal initiation in yeast (II) ............................................................... 43 4.2.3.1 Identifi cation of regions important for gene expression from internally positioned CfMVε in yeast (unpublished) ..............................48 4.2.3.2 Determination of 3’ cistron translation from dicistronic mRNAs in yeast spheroplasts (II) ......................................................... 49 4.2.4 Evaluation of the dicistronic approach in IRES