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role in PPV replication via regulation of NS2
protein
expression.
SYNCRIP affects the NS1 expression by acting
on the 3
′
‑terminal sites of NS2 mRNA
To further identify how SYNCRIP regulates NS2 mRNA
splicing, we constructed different NS1 5′-terminal and
3′-terminal splicing site mutants in NS1 mRNA (Fig-
ure
7
A), and detected and compared the levels of NS1
protein when cells were transfected with the different
mutant constructs together with pCDNA-His-SYNCRIP
or without. The results show that the expression of NS1
did not show a difference among
these cells transfected
with Flag-NS1, Flag-NS1
pNmut
, Flag-NS1
pCmut
or Flag-
NS1
pNpCmut
when these cells lacked SYNCRIP expression
(Figure
7
B). However, when cells were expressed with
SYNCRIP, the expression of NS1 significantly reduced
in the cells transfected with Flag-NS1 or Flag-NS1
pNmut
compared to the cells transfected with Flag-NS1
pCmut
and
Flag-NS1
pNpCmut
(Figure
7
C).
With the increase of SYN-
CRIP expression, the expression of Flag-NS1
pCmut
and
Flag-NS1
pNpCmut
did not gradually decrease in cells, but
Flag-NS1 and Flag-NS1
pNmut
gradually decreased in cells
(Figures
7
D–F
and Figure
5
F). Consistently, we noted
that NS1 mRNA did not decrease in the cells transfected
with Flag-NS1
pCmut
or Flag-NS1
pNpCmut
with
the increase
of SYNCRIP, but decreased in the cells transfected with
Flag-NS1
pNmut
when SYNCRIP expression gradually
increased (Figures
7
D–F), suggesting that SYNCRIP tar-
geted the 3′-terminal site of NS1 mRNA to regulate the
production of NS2 mRNA. To
further detect the effects
of the 3′-terminal mutation site of NS1 mRNA on PPV
replication, we constructed a 3′-terminal site mutant of
NS1 infectious clone (Y-PPV
pCmut
) using PPV infectious
clone Y-PPV by site-directed mutagenesis.
The results
show that the replication rate of Y-PPV
pCmut
mutants
significantly decreased compared to parental PPV (Fig-
ures
7
G, H).
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