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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 45, 43233-43242, November 8, 2002

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Direct and Indirect Contributions of RNA Secondary Structure Elements to the Initiation of HIV-1 Reverse Transcription^*

Valérie Goldschmidt, Mickaël Rigourd, Chantal Ehresmann, Stuart F. J. Le Grice^§, Bernard Ehresmann, and Roland Marquet^¶

From the  UPR 9002 du CNRS affiliée à l'Université Louis Pasteur, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 15 rue René Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg cedex, France and the ^§ Resistance Mechanisms Laboratory, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702

Initiation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcription requires specific recognition between the viral RNA (vRNA), tRNA, which acts as primer, and reverse transcriptase (RT). The specificity of this ternary complex is mediated by intricate interactions between the HIV-1 RNA and tRNA. Here, we compared the relative importance of the secondary structure elements of this complex in the initiation process. To this aim, we used the previously published three-dimensional model of the initiation complex to rationally introduce a series of deletions and substitutions in the vRNA. When necessary, we used chemical probing to check the structure of the tRNA-mutant vRNA complexes. For each of them, we measured the binding affinity of RT and the kinetics of initial extension of tRNA and of synthesis of the () strand strong stop DNA. Our results were overall in keeping with the three-dimensional model of the initiation complex. Surprisingly, we found that disruption of the intermolecular template-primer interactions, which are not directly recognized by RT, more severely affected reverse transcription than deletions or disruption of one of the intramolecular helices to which RT directly binds. Perturbations of the highly constrained junction between the intermolecular helix formed by the primer binding site and the 3' end of tRNA and the helix immediately upstream also had dramatic effects on the initiation of reverse transcription. Taken together, our results demonstrate the overwhelming importance of the overall three-dimensional structure of the initiation complex and identify structural elements that constitute promising targets for anti-initiation-specific drugs.

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