[Cell-specific roles of domains I and II of HCV 5'untranslated region in the translation initiation activity].
Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University(2014)
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the roles of Domain I and Domain II of hepatitis C virus (HCV) 5' untranslated region (UTR) in the translation initiation activity of HCV 5'UTR in different host cell lines.
METHODS:The eukaryotic expression plasmid pCMVNCRLuc (pCN1), in which full-length HCV 5'UTR regulates firefly luciferase expression, was modified by deleting Domain I and the downstream single-stranded sequence (43 bp in total) from the UTR (pCNl-d2), Domain I with the downstream single-stranded sequence and Domain II (118 bp in total) from the UTR (pCNl-d3), or the total UTR (pCNl-d5). The modified plasmids were transfected via liposome into different cell lines with pRL-TK plasmid co-transfected as the normalization control. At 36 h after the transfection, the total cellular RNA was harvested for semi-quantitative RT-PCR, and the relative expression activities of luciferase were assayed with a dual luciferase reporter gene assay system. The translation initiation activities of the truncated HCV 5'UTRs in different translation systems were analyzed.
RESULTS:Deletion of Domain I and the downstream single-stranded sequence caused no significant changes of the translational activity of HCV 5'UTR in Hela or C6 cells, but decreased the translational activity by 46% in L-02 cells and increased the translational activity by 46% in 293T cells. Deletion of both Domain I and Domain II resulted in decreased translational activity of HCV 5'UTR by 51% in HeLa cells, but increased the translational activity by 40% in L-02 cells, 60% in C6 cells and 135% in 293T cells.
CONCLUSIONS:Domain I and Domain II of HCV 5'UTR perform cell type-specific roles in HCV IRES-driven translation initiation.
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