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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 10, 7056-7065, March 9, 2007

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A Bipartite Sequence Motif Induces Translation Reinitiation in Feline Calicivirus RNA^*

From the Institut für Immunologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, D-72001 Tübingen, Germany

The mechanism leading to reinitiation of translation after termination of protein synthesis in eukaryotes has not yet been resolved in detail. One open question concerns the way the post-termination ribosome is tethered to the mRNA to allow binding of the necessary initiation factors. In caliciviruses, a family of positive strand RNA viruses, the capsid protein VP2 is translated via a termination/reinitiation process. VP2 of the feline calicivirus is encoded in the 3'-terminal open reading frame 3 (ORF3) that overlaps with the preceding ORF2 by four nucleotides. In transient expression studies, the efficiency of VP2 expression was 20 times lower than that of the ORF2 proteins. The close vicinity of the ORF2 termination signal and the ORF3 AUG codon was crucial, whereas the AUG could be replaced by alternative codons. Deletion mapping revealed that the 3'-terminal 69 nucleotides of ORF2 are crucial for VP2 expression. This sequence contains two essential sequence motifs. The first motif is conserved among caliciviruses and complementary to part of the 18 S rRNA. In conclusion, VP2 is expressed in a translation termination/reinitiation process that is special because it requires a sequence element that could prevent dissociation of post-termination ribosomes via hybridization with 18 S rRNA.

Received for publication, September 20, 2006 , and in revised form, December 18, 2006.

^* This study was supported by Grants Me1367/1 and Me1367/3 from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Institut für Immunologie, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Paul-Ehrlich-Str. 28, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany. Tel.: 49-7071-9670; Fax: 49-7071-967303; E-mail: gregor.meyers{at}fli.bund.de.

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