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Folding behavior of a T-shaped, ribosome-binding translation enhancer implicated
in a wide-spread conformational switch
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Le MT
; Kasprzak WK
; Kim T
; Gao F
; Young MY
; Yuan X
; Shapiro BA
; Seog J
; Simon AE
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Turnip crinkle virus contains a T-shaped, ribosome-binding, translation enhancer
(TSS) in its 3'UTR that serves as a hub for interactions throughout the region.
The viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) causes the TSS/surrounding region
to undergo a conformational shift postulated to inhibit translation. Using
optical tweezers (OT) and steered molecular dynamic simulations (SMD), we found
that the unusual stability of pseudoknotted element H4a/?(3) required five
upstream adenylates, and H4a/?(3) was necessary for cooperative association of
two other hairpins (H5/H4b) in Mg(2+). SMD recapitulated the TSS unfolding order
in the absence of Mg(2+), showed dependence of the resistance to pulling on the
3D orientation and gave structural insights into the measured contour lengths of
the TSS structure elements. Adenylate mutations eliminated one-site RdRp binding
to the 3'UTR, suggesting that RdRp binding to the adenylates disrupts H4a/?(3),
leading to loss of H5/H4b interaction and promoting a conformational switch
interrupting translation and promoting replication.