Mechanism of translation initiation in which ribosomes physically bypass, or shunt over, parts of the 5’ UTR to reach the initiation codon. When translation initiation factors are scarce, the ribosome is directly translocated from the upstream initiation complex to the start codon (AUG) without the need for eIF4A helicase activity to unwind RNA secondary structure- Adenovirus, Cauliflower mosaic virus
9. Arena and some Bunyaviruses
Genomic ssRNA in nucleocapsid
Viral mRNA for nucleocapsid protein & RdRP
Nucleocapsid protein &
RdRP
1
2
3
Antigenomic
ssRNA in
nucleocapsid 4
Entry & partial uncoating
Transcription of
half genomic RNA
Protein synthesis
Virus
assembly
Progeny virus
RNA replication
mRNA for other viral protein
Structural proteins
Transcription of
another half
antigenomic RNA
Protein synthesis
6
5
8
7
9
10.
11. The several genes along the viral RNA are each separated by a consensus sequence that
includes termination and start signals as well as short intergenic sequences of U residues that
enable the transcriptase to generate a long poly(A) tail for each mRNA by a process of
reiterative copying (stop-start transcription, also known as stuttering). Each completed
mRNA is cleaved off, but the enzyme continues to transcribe the next gene)
Stop-start transcription (stuttering)
12. Paramyxovirus transcription also involves a process known as editing. The P gene
encodes two proteins, P and V, which share a common N-terminal amino acid
sequence but differ completely in their C-terminal sequences because of a shift in
the reading frame brought about by the insertion of two uncoded G residues into “
the RNA transcript by transcriptase stuttering
Filovirus and hepatitis deltavirus
13.
14. Leaky scanning- Phenomenon in which a weak initiation codon triplet on mRNA is
sometimes skipped by ribosome in translation initiation- Sendai virus , Influenza B
virus, HIV, SV40
15. Suppression of termination (stop codon read through): Alternate
mechanism of translation to produce a protein with an extended C-
terminus- Alphavirus nsP4, reterovirus gag-pol
16. Ribosomal Framshifting: Coronavirus orf a-orfd, Human astrovirus type I
orfIa-orfIb, reterovirus gag-pol
18. Ribosomal shunting: Mechanism of translation initiation in which
ribosomes physically bypass, or shunt over, parts of the 5’ UTR to reach the
initiation codon. When translation initiation factors are scarce, the ribosome
is directly translocated from the upstream initiation complex to the start
codon (AUG) without the need for eIF4A helicase activity to unwind RNA
secondary structure- Adenovirus, Cauliflower mosaic virus