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  • Title: In vitro synthesis of full-length influenza virus complementary RNA.
    Author: del Río L, Martínez C, Domingo E, Ortín J.
    Journal: EMBO J; 1985 Jan; 4(1):243-7. PubMed ID: 2410253.
    Abstract:
    Influenza virus-specific RNA has been synthesized in vitro, using cytoplasmic or microsomal fractions of influenza virus-infected MDCK cells. The RNA polymerase activity was stimulated 5-30 times by priming with ApG. About 20-30% of the product was polyadenylated. Most of the in vitro product was of positive polarity, as shown by hybridization to strand specific probes and by T1 fingerprinting of the poly(A)+ and poly(A)- RNA segments encoding haemagglutinin and nucleoprotein. The size of poly(A)- RNA segments, determined on sequencing gels, was indistinguishable from that of virion RNA, whereas poly(A)+ RNA segments contain poly(A) tails approximately 50 nucleotides long. The size of in vitro synthesized RNA segments was also determined by gel electrophoresis of S1-treated double-stranded RNAs, obtained by hybridization of poly(A)+ or poly(A)- RNA fractions with excess of unlabelled virion RNA. The results of these experiments indicate that poly(A)- RNA contains full-length complementary RNA. This conclusion is further substantiated by the presence of additional oligonucleotides in the T1 fingerprints of in vitro synthesized poly(A)- haemagglutinin or nucleoprotein RNA, selected by hybridization to cloned DNA probes corresponding to the 3' termini of the genes.
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