Ov. Karpova et al., THE 3'-UNTRANSLATED REGION OF BROME MOSAIC-VIRUS RNA DOES NOT ENHANCETRANSLATION OF CAPPED MESSENGER-RNAS IN-VITRO, FEBS letters, 360(3), 1995, pp. 281-285
The translation enhancing ability of cis-acting 3'-terminal untranslat
ed region (3'-UTR) of brome mosaic virus (BMV) was examined. Two chime
ric mRNA constructs translated in rabbit reticulocyte lysates containe
d the BMV coat protein (CP) gene and NPTI gene, respectively. It was s
hown that the 3'-UTR of BMV RNA enhanced the translational efficiency
of uncapped but not capped messages.