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. 1989 Feb;63(2):847–862. doi: 10.1128/jvi.63.2.847-862.1989

The deletion of 41 proximal nucleotides reverts a poliovirus mutant containing a temperature-sensitive lesion in the 5' noncoding region of genomic RNA.

S L Dildine 1, B L Semler 1
PMCID: PMC247759  PMID: 2536107

Abstract

We generated a number of small deletions and insertions in the 5' noncoding region of an infectious cDNA copy of the poliovirus RNA genome. Transfection of these mutated cDNAs into COS-1 cells produced the following phenotypic categories: (i) wild-type mutations, (ii) lethal mutations, (iii) mutations exhibiting slow growth or low-titer properties, and (iv) temperature-sensitive (ts) mutations. The deletion of nucleotides 221 to 224 produced a ts virus, 220D1. Mutant 220D1 was found to have a dramatic reduction in growth, virus-specific protein and RNA synthesis, and the shutoff of host cell protein synthesis at 37 or 39 degrees C compared with 33 degrees C. Temperature shift experiments showed that the mutant viral RNA is not an effective template for protein or RNA synthesis at 39 degrees C and suggested a decreased stability of the 220D1 RNA at 39 degrees C. Selection for a non-ts revertant of 220D1 yielded the virus R2, which was no longer ts for growth or viral protein and RNA synthesis. Sequencing the 5' noncoding region of the genomic RNA from R2 revealed the deletion of 41 proximal nucleotides for an overall deletion of nucleotides 184 to 228. These data suggest that the deleted sequences are nonessential to the poliovirus life cycle during growth in HeLa cells. According to computer-predicted RNA secondary structures of the 5' noncoding region of poliovirus RNA, the R2 revertant virus has deleted an entire predicted stem-loop structure.

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