The impact of viral RNA on assembly pathway selection.

Journal of Molecular Biology
Victoria L MortonP G Stockley

Abstract

Many single-stranded RNA viruses self-assemble their protein containers around their genomes. The roles that the RNA plays in this assembly process have mostly been ignored, resulting in a protein-centric view of assembly that is unable to explain adequately the fidelity and speed of assembly in such viruses. Using bacteriophage MS2, we demonstrate here via a combination of mass spectrometry and kinetic modelling how viral RNA can bias assembly towards only a small number of the many possible assembly pathways, thus increasing assembly efficiency. Assembly reactions have been studied in vitro using phage coat protein dimers, the known building block of the T=3 shell, and short RNA stem-loops based on the translational operator of the replicase cistron, a 19 nt fragment (TR). Mass spectrometry has unambiguously identified two on-pathway intermediates in such reactions that have stoichiometry consistent with formation of either a particle 3-fold or 5-fold axis. These imply that there are at least two sub-pathways to the final capsid. The flux through each pathway is controlled by the length of the RNA stem-loop triggering the assembly reaction and this effect can be understood in structural terms. The kinetics of intermediate for...Continue Reading

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