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New insights into RNA packaging in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus Free

Abstract

While identifying whether the smallest packaged heteroclite subgenomic RNA (S9) of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) contains a packaging signal, we found that S9 was capable of binding to the basic amino acid-rich domain (synthetic peptide of aa 34–53) of the packaging protein (N). In addition, by using truncations at the 5′ and 3′ ends of S9, a minimal binding region of 35 nt was found to be essential for binding to both the synthetic peptide and to the full-length N protein. Furthermore, by using cell-culture experiments, we found that S9 was capable of packaging non-viral RNA sequence into PRRSV particles and that the 35 nt region was essential for this activity. Taken together, our data suggest that this 35 nt region might be an important element for packaging PRRSV genomic RNA into virus particles.

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New insights into RNA packaging in porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
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