Identification of a subgenomic mRNA encoding the capsid protein of mushroom bacilliform virus, a single-stranded RNA mycovirus

Virology. 1999 Aug 1;260(2):273-6. doi: 10.1006/viro.1999.9839.

Abstract

Mushroom bacilliform virus is unique among mycoviruses of the higher fungi in having a genome of positive-sense single-stranded RNA. We have identified a subgenomic mRNA molecule encoding the viral capsid protein in mushroom bacilliform virus-infected mycelium of Agaricus bisporus. Transcription of subgenomic RNA commences at the sequence ACAAAA, 47 nucleotides upstream of the initiating AUG.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Agaricus / virology*
  • Base Sequence
  • Blotting, Northern
  • Capsid / genetics*
  • Genome, Viral*
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Open Reading Frames / genetics
  • RNA Viruses / genetics*
  • RNA, Messenger / analysis
  • RNA, Messenger / chemistry
  • RNA, Messenger / genetics*
  • RNA, Viral / analysis
  • RNA, Viral / chemistry
  • RNA, Viral / genetics*
  • Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
  • Transcription, Genetic / genetics

Substances

  • RNA, Messenger
  • RNA, Viral