title: Sequence and structure at the genome 3' end of the U2-strain of tobacco mosaic virus, a histidine-accepting tobamovirus.
abstract: The primary sequence of the 3' noncoding region of U2-TMV RNA was determined. A structural model was proposed based on chemical and enzymatic structure mapping as well as on analyses of nuclease protection by aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetase. The model agrees with those proposed for TMV "vulgare" RNA and confirms their general validity for the tobamoviruses. The RNA appears to have a tRNA-like, L-shaped structure at the 3' terminus, linked to a quasi-continuous double-helical stalk, with five pseudoknots involved in the formation of the whole structure. However, the structure of U2-TMV RNA is less stringently conserved than the 3' termini of "vulgare" and other histidine-accepting tobamoviruses. This difference is reflected in the kinetics of aminoacylation of the RNA.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Patología Vegetal, E.T.S.I. Agrónomos, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: García-Arenal
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006639:Histidine / Q000235:genetics; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014027:Tobacco Mosaic Virus / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral; D006639:Histidine