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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 84, 期 3, 页码 1641-1647出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01979-09
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- National Institutes of Health, USA [5U01AI066321, GM079523]
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
- Science Foundation Ireland
Flavivirus NS1 is a nonstructural protein involved in virus replication and regulation of the innate immune response. Interestingly, a larger NS1-related protein, NS1', is often detected during infection with the members of the Japanese encephalitis virus serogroup of flaviviruses. However, how NS1' is made and what role it performs in the viral life cycle have not been determined. Here we provide experimental evidence that NS1' is the product of a -1 ribosomal frameshift event that occurs at a conserved slippery heptanucleotide motif located near the beginning of the NS2A gene and is stimulated by a downstream RNA pseudoknot structure. Using site-directed mutagenesis of these sequence elements in an infectious clone of the Kunjin subtype of West Nile virus, we demonstrate that NS1' plays a role in viral neuroinvasiveness.
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