Figure 7
From: Mechanism of HIV-1 Tat RNA translation and its activation by the Tat protein
Influence of Tat-HeLa cell extracts on Tat RNA translation in the RRL. Tat-HeLa cell extracts were prepared as described in methods and increasing amounts added to the URRL. Results show that addition of increasing amounts of Tat-HeLa cell extracts enhanced translation of the Tat and genomic UTR-Rluc RNA by up to two-fold (Panel A). On the contrary, there was no effect on the translation of Rluc RNA, or of 5' UTR-Rluc RNA lacking the TAR-pA sequences (panel B). In agreement with this, translation of the TAR-pA-Rluc RNA was enhanced by up to three fold by the HeLa-Tat cell extracts (panel C). All experiments were carried out at least three times.