Combined single molecule experimental and computational approaches for understanding the unfolding pathway of a viral translation enhancer that participates in a conformational switch.
RNA BIOLOGY(2017)
Abstract
How plus-strand [+] RNA virus genomes transition from translation templates to replication templates is a matter of much speculation. We have previously proposed that, for Turnip crinkle virus, binding of the encoded RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) to the 3'UTR of the [+] RNA template promotes a regional wide-spread conformational switch to an alternative structure that disassembles the capindependent translation enhancer (CITE) in the 3'UTR. The active 3'CITE folds into a tRNA-like T-shaped structure (TSS) that binds to 80S ribosomes and 60S subunits in the P-site. In this Point-of-View, we discuss the history of our research on the TSS and our recent report combining coarse level single molecule force spectroscopy (optical tweezers) with fine-grain computer simulations of this experimental process and biochemical approaches to obtain a detailed understanding of how RdRp binding in the TSS vicinity might lead to an extensive rearrangement of the RNA structure.
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Key words
3 ' CITE,optical tweezer,RNA structural switch,steered molecular,dynamics simulations,translation enhancer,turnip crinkle virus
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