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Poliovirus replicase: a soluble enzyme able to initiate copying of poliovirus RNA.

Dasgupta A, Baron MH, Baltimore D

Abstract

The soluble phase of the cytoplasm of poliovirus-infected cells contains an enzymatic activity able to copy RNA without an added primer. This replicase activity has been purified 60-fold; it is absent from uninfected cells. Poly(U) polymerase activity copurifies with replicase activity. Although less pure replicase fractions copy a variety of RNAs, purer fractions respond better to poliovirus RNA than to other viral RNAs. Even the less pure fractions make a specific copy of the added template, as shown by hybridization of the product to its template RNA but not to other RNAs. Among homopolymers only poly(A)-oligo(U) was copied by the replicase; other primed homopolymer templates were inactive.

MeSH Terms
HeLa Cells/enzymology Kinetics Poliovirus/enzymology RNA Nucleotidyltransferases/metabolism RNA, Viral/biosynthesis RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/isolation & purification,metabolism Templates, Genetic
Chemicals
RNA, Viral RNA Nucleotidyltransferases RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Dasgupta A
Baron M H
Baltimore D
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19 references, click to expand
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abbr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
Published
1979-06-00
Pages
2679-83
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505876
PMCID
PMC383671
Subset
IM
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