PMID- 19144713 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090330 LR - 20211020 IS - 1098-5514 (Electronic) IS - 0022-538X (Print) IS - 0022-538X (Linking) VI - 83 IP - 7 DP - 2009 Apr TI - 5' cis elements direct nodavirus RNA1 recruitment to mitochondrial sites of replication complex formation. PG - 2976-88 LID - 10.1128/JVI.02040-08 [doi] AB - Positive-strand RNA viruses replicate their genomes on intracellular membranes, usually in conjunction with virus-induced membrane rearrangements. For the nodavirus flock house virus (FHV), we recently showed that multifunctional FHV replicase protein A induces viral RNA template recruitment to a membrane-associated state, but the site(s) and function of this recruitment were not determined. By tagging viral RNA with green fluorescent protein, we show here in Drosophila cells that protein A recruits FHV RNA specifically to the outer mitochondrial membrane sites of RNA replication complex formation. Using Drosophila cells and yeast cells, which also support FHV replication, we also defined the cis-acting regions that direct replication and template recruitment for FHV genomic RNA1. RNA1 nucleotides 68 to 205 were required for RNA replication and directed efficient protein A-mediated RNA recruitment in both cell types. RNA secondary structure prediction, structure probing, and phylogenetic comparisons in this region identified two stable, conserved stem-loops with nearly identical loop sequences. Further mutational analysis showed that both stem-loops and certain flanking sequences were required for RNA1 recruitment, negative-strand synthesis, and subsequent positive-strand amplification in yeast and Drosophila cells. Thus, we have shown that protein A recruits RNA1 templates to mitochondria, as expected for RNA replication, and identified a new RNA1 cis element that is necessary and sufficient for RNA1 template recognition and recruitment to these mitochondrial membranes for negative-strand RNA1 synthesis. These results establish RNA recruitment to the sites of replication complex formation as an essential, distinct, and selective early step in nodavirus replication. FAU - Van Wynsberghe, Priscilla M AU - Van Wynsberghe PM AD - Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1596, USA. FAU - Ahlquist, Paul AU - Ahlquist P LA - eng GR - R01 GM035072/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 GM007215/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - GM35072/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R37 GM035072/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States GR - HHMI/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/United States GR - T32 GM07215/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20090114 PL - United States TA - J Virol JT - Journal of virology JID - 0113724 RN - 0 (RNA, Viral) RN - 0 (Viral Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Line MH - Drosophila MH - Mitochondria/*virology MH - Nodaviridae/*physiology MH - Nucleic Acid Conformation MH - Phylogeny MH - RNA, Viral/*genetics/*metabolism MH - Saccharomyces cerevisiae/virology MH - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid MH - Viral Proteins/metabolism MH - *Virus Replication PMC - PMC2655588 EDAT- 2009/01/16 09:00 MHDA- 2009/03/31 09:00 PMCR- 2009/10/01 CRDT- 2009/01/16 09:00 PHST- 2009/01/16 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/01/16 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/03/31 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2009/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - JVI.02040-08 [pii] AID - 2040-08 [pii] AID - 10.1128/JVI.02040-08 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Virol. 2009 Apr;83(7):2976-88. doi: 10.1128/JVI.02040-08. Epub 2009 Jan 14.