FIG. 1.

The 5′ and 3′ ends of a functional domain of DLS. (A) A schematic image of monomer formation of the E/DLS duplicated mutant (DD-mutant) genome. Genomes of the WT virus form dimers, whereas those of DD-mutant form both dimers and monomers. Solid lines and open circles represent viral genome RNA and E/DLS, respectively. (B) Possible two-dimensional folds of the inserted fragment of each of the constructed mutants. nt., nucleotide. (C) Virion RNA profiles in native agarose gel. Viruses were prepared by transfection of 293T cells with pNLNh (WT) or its derivative mutants. At 48 h posttransfection, culture supernatants were harvested. Virions in the supernatant were collected by ultracentrifugation through a 20% sucrose cushion for isolation of the virion RNA. Open and solid arrowheads denote positions of dimers and monomers, respectively.