Rotavirus RNA chaperone mediates global transcriptome-wide increase in RNA backbone flexibility

© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research..

Due to genome segmentation, rotaviruses must co-package eleven distinct genomic RNAs. The packaging is mediated by virus-encoded RNA chaperones, such as the rotavirus NSP2 protein. While the activities of distinct RNA chaperones are well studied on smaller RNAs, little is known about their global effect on the entire viral transcriptome. Here, we used Selective 2'-hydroxyl Acylation Analyzed by Primer Extension and Mutational Profiling (SHAPE-MaP) to examine the secondary structure of the rotavirus transcriptome in the presence of increasing amounts of NSP2. SHAPE-MaP data reveals that despite the well-documented helix-unwinding activity of NSP2 in vitro, its incubation with cognate rotavirus transcripts does not induce a significant change in the SHAPE reactivities. However, a quantitative analysis of mutation rates measured by mutational profiling reveals a global 5-fold rate increase in the presence of NSP2. We demonstrate that the normalization procedure used in deriving SHAPE reactivities from mutation rates can mask an important global effect of an RNA chaperone. Analysis of the mutation rates reveals a larger effect on stems rather than loops. Together, these data provide the first experimentally derived secondary structure model of the rotavirus transcriptome and reveal that NSP2 acts by globally increasing RNA backbone flexibility in a concentration-dependent manner.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Nucleic acids research - 50(2022), 17 vom: 23. Sept., Seite 10078-10092

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Coria, Aaztli [VerfasserIn]
Wienecke, Anastacia [VerfasserIn]
Knight, Michael L [VerfasserIn]
Desirò, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Laederach, Alain [VerfasserIn]
Borodavka, Alexander [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Molecular Chaperones
RNA, Viral
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Viral Nonstructural Proteins

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Date Completed 28.09.2022

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/nar/gkac738

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34579768X