Process of Cap Formation of Messenger RNA by Vaccinia Virus Particles Carrying an Organized Enzyme System Free

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Vaccinia virus mRNAs carry the cap structure mGpppAm- or mGpppGm- at the 5′-terminus, which is synthesized by a series of RNA polymerase and capping enzymes contained in the virus particle. The process of the cap formation at the 5′-terminus of mRNA was studied using an system under similar conditions to those of vaccinia virus multiplication in its host cell. After adding a methyl-group donor, methyl-H--adenosylmethionine, the oligonucleotides, which were the synthesized 5′-terminal part of mRNA, were isolated from the RNA-synthesizing virion at appropriate time intervals, and were analysed. The 5′-5′ confronting nucleotides with 2′--methylation, GpppAm and GpppGm, were found with the completed cap structure, mGpppAm and mGpppGm. The confronting nucleotides with only 7-methyl guanine as a methylated component, mGpppA and mGpppG, were not detected at any incubation time, and it was concluded that methylation at the 2′-position of the 5′-terminal purine nucleoside of mRNA precedes methylation of the 7-position of the blocking guanosine. This result is different from that obtained using the enzymes isolated from vaccinia virus (Moss ., 1976) and also from the results obtained using other kinds of virus particles, which carry RNA polymerase and capping enzymes. These differences may be due to the specific organization of a series of capping enzymes and RNA polymerase in each virus particle.

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