Key result
A structural model of the enteroviral 5' untranslated region proposes a 20-nucleotide intrinsically disordered RNA region whose flexibility facilitates recognition by host factors.
Why the study?
Structural information about the enteroviral 5' untranslated region is needed to assist in the process of vaccine and antiviral development.
Modeling the 5' UTR of enteroviral RNA reveals structural insights important for antiviral development.
Enterovirus infections are responsible for human diseases, including myocarditis, pancreatitis, acute flaccid paralysis, and poliomyelitis. The virulence of these viruses depends on efficient recognition of the RNA genome by a large family of host proteins and protein synthesis factors, which in turn relies on the three-dimensional folding of the first 750 nucleotides of the molecule. Structural information about this region of the genome, called the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR), is needed to assist in the process of vaccine and antiviral development. This work presents a model for the structure of the enteroviral 5' UTR. The model includes an RNA element called an intrinsically disordered RNA region (IDRR). Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are well known, but correlates in RNA have not been proposed. The proposed IDRR is a 20-nucleotide region, long known for its functional importance, where structural flexibility helps explain recognition by factors controlling multiple functional states.
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Mahmud et al. (2019) studied Enterovirus infections. Structural modeling of the enteroviral 5' UTR was evaluated on Structure of the enteroviral 5' UTR. A structural model of the enteroviral 5' untranslated region proposes a 20-nucleotide intrinsically disordered RNA region whose flexibility facilitates recognition by host factors.
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