Rous sarcoma virus encodes a transcriptional activator
- 31 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Cell
- Vol. 40 (3), 537-546
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(85)90202-8
Abstract
Rous sarcoma virus expresses a transcriptional activator that affects the LTR as well as other promoters. We discern this activity as a stimulation of the transient expression of an LTR-promoted hybrid transcriptional unit and also of the rat preproinsulin II gene in transfected NIH 3T3 cells. We map the activity to an alternate reading frame in the p19-p10 region of the gag gene and identify a mRNA whose spliced structure would direct translation of this reading frame from the Pr76gag initiation codon. This mRNA probably differs from genomic RNA only by the 282 nucleotide splice. The predicted translation product is a 124 residue polypeptide; the first six amino acids arise from gag. The target for the action of this transcriptional modulator at the LTR lies between 111 and 620 nucleotides upstream of the cap site.Keywords
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