Abstract
The translation of HCV starts at the internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) within the 5' untranslated region and IRES is well-conserved in HCV strains. We developed a novel selection strategy using biotinylated oligonucleotide probe and obtained RNA aptamers that bind HCV IRES domain II and domain III-IV, respectively. Selected aptamers specifically bound to target sequence via RNA-RNA interactions. These aptamers inhibited IRES-depend translation in vitro. Especially, 3-07 aptamer, which bound domain IIId, showed strong inhibition. Structure/function relationship of these aptamers was analyzed by mutagenesis, RNase mapping and binding kinetics.
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