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Termination of translation occurs when one of three stop codons enters the A-site of the small 40S ribosomal subunit. Stop codons are recognized by release factors eRF1 and eRF3 , which promote hydrolysis of the peptidyl-tRNA bond in the peptidyl transferase center P-site of the large ribosomal subunit. Read-through occurs when this leaky stop codon is misread as a sense codon with translation continuing to the next termination codon. Read-through signals and mechanisms of prokaryotic, plant, and mammalian viruses are variable and are still poorly understood.

Programmed ribosomal frameshifting is a tightly controlled, programmed strategy used by some viruses to produce different proteins encoded by two or more overlapping open reading frames Fig. Ordinarily, ribosomes function to maintain the reading frame of the mRNA sequence being translated.

However, some viral mRNAs carry specific sequence information and structural elements in their mRNA molecules that cause ribosomes to slip, and then readjust the reading frame. This ribosomal frameshift enables viruses to encode more proteins in spite of their small size. Ribosomal frameshifting. This occurs because the initiation codon can be part of a weak Kozak consensus sequence. As a result, there can be the production of several different proteins if the AUG codon is not in frame, or proteins with different N-termini if the AUGs are in the same frame.

A number of viruses engage in leaky scanning, including members of the families Herpesviridae , Orthomyxoviridae , and Reoviridae. It is, therefore, referred to as cap-dependent discontinuous scanning. The mechanism of ribosome shunting has not been described in molecular detail. Shunting expands the coding capacity of mRNAs of viruses such as caulimoviruses.

Ribosomal shunting. Ribosomes, therefore, skip the synthesis of the glycyl-prolyl peptide bond at the C-terminus of a 2A peptide cleavage of the peptide bond between a 2A peptide and its immediate downstream peptide. Translation is then reinitiated on the same codon, which leads to production of two individual proteins from one open reading frame. Viruses not only employ strategies that maximize the coding capacity of their small genomes, disguise their mRNA with the same structural elements found in host mRNA, regulate their genome expression in a time- and space-dependent manner, but they have also evolved ways of subverting host cell functions in order to favor their own replication and translation.

These phosphorylation events serve to activate or deactivate the enzyme. Some viruses herpesviruses, bunyaviruses counteract this phosphorylation at serine amino acids to inactivate RNA polymerase, while other viruses orthomyxviruses, togaviruses disrupt cellular RNA polymerase function by signaling ubiquitination of the enzyme and its subsequent degradation by proteasomal action.

Phosphorylation of serine residues located on the CTD of the enzymes is blocked by some viruses. Other viruses arrest RNA Pol activity by signaling ubiquitination of the transcribing enzyme, which is subsequently degraded by the proteasome. Viruses can engage in targeted disruption of cellular mRNA export pathways to promote preferential viral gene expression Fig.

All DNA viruses replicate within the nucleus except poxviruses, asfarviruses, and phycodnaviruses. Few RNA viruses, including bornaviruses, orthomyxoviruses, and retroviruses, replicate in the nucleus.

Trafficking between the nucleus and cytoplasm is usually unidirectional for large macromolecules like the mRNA transcript, and occurs through the n uclear p ore c omplex NPC. Viruses that replicate in the nucleus must out-compete cellular mRNAs to export viral mRNAs out of the nucleus for translation into virus gene products in the cytoplasm. Several viruses can inhibit nuclear export of cellular mRNAs by disrupting nuclear export receptors exportin1 and TIP-associated protein and nucleoporins that comprise the NPC to compromise their function in nucleocytoplasmic trafficking of cellular mRNA.

One half of the NPC is shown in the diagram. Many DNA viruses e. Viruses have developed different strategies to effectively degrade host mRNAs and to allow preferential translation of their own mRNA Fig.

Most viruses produce an endonuclease that cleaves host mRNAs, which are then degraded by host exonucleases e. Betacoronaviruses, influenza viruses, vaccinia viruses, and herpesviruses can produce viral endonucleotyic products to an extent that saturates cellular RNA decay-related quality control mechanisms and limit their function.

Transcripts of cytoplasmic viruses must circumvent the cellular mRNA decay machinery to enable virion production. Picornaviruses are able to suppress cellular RNA decay factors, and polioviruses and human rhinoviruses produce viral proteases that degrade Xrn1, Dcp1, Dcp2, Pan3 a deadenylase , and AUF1decay factors.

Viruses capable of inducing the shutdown of cellular mRNA translation are able to continue to translate at least part of their mRNAs using noncanonical translation mechanisms, for example, cap-independent translation, ribosome shunting, and leaking scanning e. Shutoff of host translation machinery by viral interference with specific eukaryotic translation initiation factors and poly A binding protein PABP.

Most viruses interact with cellular chaperones in order to ensure correct folding of viral proteins. Viral proteins often consist of multiple domains or are produced as polyprotein precursors, which must be processed before they can be functional.

The coat protein or capsid is a meta-stable structure that must be specifically assembled in a preordered arrangement without reaching minimum free energy; yet must be disassembled upon entry of the host cell. Some cellular chaperones, for example, Hsp70, are used to accelerate the maturation of viral proteins and are involved in regulating the viral biological cycle. The high rate of mutation in RNA viruses may mean an increased dependency on chaperones for the gene products of these viruses.

Hsp70 can refold denatured proteins, which negates some of the destabilizing alterations in structural proteins as a result of mutated genes. This ensures that a high proportion of viral proteins is accurately configured to function in virus multiplication.

Viruses can manipulate the cellular metabolism to provide an increased pool of molecules, for example, nucleotides and amino acids, which are required for viral gene expression and virion assembly. Some viruses need to create a lipid-rich intracellular environment favorable for their replication, morphogenesis, and egress. Replication of HCV occurs on specific lipid raft domains, whereas assembly occurs in lipid droplets.

As such, in order for HCV to create replication compartments and increase sites of assembly, the RNA virus requires both the synthesis of fatty acids, for example, cholesterol, sphingolipids, phosphatidylcholine, and phosphatidylethanolamine, and formation of lipid droplets. Lipids are especially required for assembly of virions of enveloped viruses as these molecules are a major component of membranes. Cellular lipid metabolism is affected at three levels: enhanced lipogenesis, impaired degradation, and disruption of export, which is subsequently manifested in the host as HCV-associated pathogenesis.

Viral interference of the host cell cycle can result in the dysregulation of cell cycle checkpoint control mechanisms to promote viral replication and to facilitate efficient virion assembly. Both DNA and RNA viruses specifically encode proteins responsible for targeting and arresting essential cell cycle regulators to create intracellular conditions that are favorable for viral replication and propagation.

Retroviruses and other RNA viruses also interfere with the host cell cycle. Viral-mediation of the cell cycle can increase the efficiency of viral gene expression and virion assembly. Cell cycle arrest may delay apoptosis of infected cells. Many viruses encode a cyclin-D homolog protein v-cyclin that associates with Cdk6 to phosphorylate Rb, which regulates G1 phase. Various DNA viruses primarily infect quiescent or differentiated cells, which contain low levels of deoxynucleotides dNTPs as these cells do not undergo active cell division.

As such, a restricted pool of dNTPs will not provide an ideal environment for viral replication. It has been proposed that such viruses can induce quiescent cells to enter the cell cycle, specifically the S phase, in order to create an environment that generates factors, such as nucleotides, that are required for viral replication.

Large DNA viruses, for example, herpesviruses, can cause cell cycle arrest as a mean of competing for cellular DNA replication resources. The viral-mediated modifications of host cell cycles, which may be detrimental to cellular physiology, significantly contributes to associated pathologies, such as cancer progression and cell transformation.

A summary of most of the strategies developed by viruses to ensure viral replication and gene expression is provided in Fig. Summary of strategies developed by viruses to ensure viral replication and gene expression. Finally, viruses have developed a number of targeted strategies to manipulate cellular activities, which enable specific recruitment of macromolecules required for viral replication and gene expression at specific locations in the host cell.

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For the purposes of a geopolitical dialogue with India, the relevant areas could include the Arctic, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean — all the way from Murmansk to Mumbai. On this basis, Moscow needs to engage more closely with New Delhi as it further fleshes out the idea of a Greater Eurasian partnership.

Maintaining strategic partnerships with both India and China at bilateral and trilateral RIC levels is crucial for general geopolitical stability in Eurasia.

Russia, which has neither the ambition nor the resources to dominate Greater Eurasia, could play a key role in maintaining Eurasian equilibrium, which requires Russo-Indo-Chinese understanding. While being realistic about its partners and their complicated relations, Russia needs to proactively facilitate efforts at better understanding between New Delhi and Beijing, and promote positive interaction among the three great powers.

It is even more necessary for building up the Shanghai Cooperation Organization SCO as a continent-wide dialogue platform. India, which is genuinely interested in an improved relationship between Russia and the United States, might be useful here. Sidelining New Delhi, as has occasionally happened in discussions on Afghanistan, should never happen again. New global issues, from the spread of pandemics to climate change and energy transition, open up broad new areas for Russia-India cooperation, even as they require the careful management of differences.

Engaging early with each other would favor cooperative elements over competitive ones and make it possible to chart a coordinated approach to what have become vital issues for the world community.

The two relationships are very different, as is the wider context in which they operate. The idea is above all to explore and exploit economic opportunities, without which relations with India will always lag behind those with China. There have been many attempts to expand Indo-Russian economic ties, but progress in that direction has been painfully slow. Most of these efforts have followed the well-trodden path of government-to-government contracts, which is not to be abandoned.

One opportunity at hand that is truly unique is deepening military-technical cooperation.



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