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. 1982 Oct;44(1):199–208. doi: 10.1128/jvi.44.1.199-208.1982

In Vitro Translation of Autographa californica Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus Early and Late mRNAs

Gale E Smith 1, Just M Vlak 2, Max D Summers 1,†
PMCID: PMC256253  PMID: 16789231

Abstract

A preliminary translational map of the Autographa californica genome was constructed. Eighteen viral DNA restriction fragments were either purified from agarose gels or obtained from pBR322 recombinant DNA plasmids to locate specific gene products. The DNAs were immobilized on nitrocellulose filters and used to select viral mRNAs isolated from RNA obtained from the cytoplasm of infected Spodoptera frugiperda cells at 21 h postinfection. The fragment-specific mRNAs were translated in vitro in the presence of l-[3H]leucine by using a rabbit reticulocyte lysate system and analyzed on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. The approximate locations of 19 A. californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV) gene products were mapped. The genes for mRNAs present late in viral infection were mapped to DNA fragments that represent nearly the entire genome. The molecular weights of many of these proteins were similar to those present in purified AcMNPV extracellular virus and to proteins being made in infected cells at 18 to 21 h postinfection. Cytoplasmic RNA was isolated at 4 h postinfection from infected cells, a time early in the viral infection cycle, and hybridized to AcMNPV DNA immobilized on nitrocellulose filters. AcMNPV-specific early RNA was translated in vitro into at least six polypeptides, the most abundant having a molecular weight of 39,000. Viral polypeptides were detected in cells pulse-labeled with l-[3H]leucine at 3 to 6 h postinfection, with molecular weights similar to those of polypeptides made in vitro from early AcMNPV mRNA.

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