Self-priming of reverse transcriptase impairs strand-specific detection of dengue virus RNA

The Journal of General Virology
A TuiskunenS Plumet

Abstract

Dengue virus infection is the most frequent arthropod-borne infection affecting humans in the world. Our understanding of the pathophysiological events leading to mild or severe outcomes of the disease remains limited by the fact that viral target cells in the human body are poorly characterized. One of the most sensitive strategies for detecting cells supporting active replication of this positive-strand RNA virus is the search for the replicative intermediate, an antigenome of negative polarity, by RT-PCR. However, a phenomenon described as 'false priming' of the reverse transcriptase (RT) prevents strand-specific detection. The results of the current study showed that this event corresponds to cDNA synthesis that is independent of any primer addition. This property was general to all RNAs tested and was not associated with small free nucleic acids, such as tRNAs and microRNAs. Rather, it corresponded to initiation of cDNA synthesis from the 3' end of the RNA template, and a model is proposed in which the template RNA snaps back upon itself and creates a transient RNA primer suitable for the RT. Such a property would explain why many assays proposed for detection of a replicative intermediate are not specific, and may help in...Continue Reading

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