RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Rose, Nicola J. A1 Lever, Andrew M. L.YR 2001 T1 The rapamycin sensitivity of human T-cell leukaemia virus type I-induced T-cell proliferation is mediated independently of the polypyrimidine motifs in the 5′ long terminal repeat JF Journal of General Virology, VO 82 IS 2 SP 435 OP 439 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-82-2-435 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1465-2099, AB The immunosuppressant rapamycin can regulate the translation of a subset of messenger RNAs, a phenotype which has been linked to the presence of a polypyrimidine motif [C(N)4–14] downstream of the mRNA cap structure. T-cell clones naturally infected with transcriptionally active human T-cell leukaemia virus, type I (HTLV-I) undergo autologous proliferation; this phenotype is inhibited by rapamycin but not FK506, which reverses the rapamycin effect. Within the R region of the HTLV-I 5′ long terminal repeat (LTR) there are seven polypyrimidine motifs. We sought to determine if these were involved in the sensitivity of proliferation to the presence of rapamycin. Here we illustrate the generation of an in vitro model of this rapamycin-sensitivity and the analysis of LTR mutants which were created to determine the importance of the polypyrimidine motifs. Reporter gene assays suggest the effect is independent of the polypyrimidine motifs in the virus leader sequence., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-82-2-435