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ArticleVirus research1999

Activity of a purified His-tagged 3C-like proteinase from the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus.

K W Tibbles, D Cavanagh, T D Brown

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Article in Virus research, 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

K W TibblesDepartment of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK. kwt@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
D Cavanagh
T D Brown
The Pirbright Institute · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies in vitro of the processing of cloned polyprotein fragments from the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) large open reading frame (ORF1), confirmed the activity of a predicted 3C-like proteinase (3CLP) domain and suggested that the proteinase is released autocatalytically from the polyprotein in the form of a 35 kDa protein, 3CLpro, capable of further cleavages in trans. In order to identify such cleavages within the ORF1 polyprotein mediated by 3CLpro, the proteinase was expressed in bacteria, purified and used in trans cleavage assays with polyprotein fragments lacking the 3CLP domain as targets. The proteinase was expressed as a polyprotein fragment which was able to process during expression in bacterial cells, releasing mature 3CLpro. A histidine (His6) tag was introduced close to the C-terminus of the proteinase to aid purification. Processing demonstrated by the tagged proteinase was indistinguishable from that of the wild-type enzyme indicating that the site chosen for the tag was permissive. From these studies we were able to demonstrate trans cleavages consistent with the use of most of the previously predicted or identified sites within the open reading frame of gene 1. This tentatively completes the processing map for the ORF1 region with respect to 3CLpro.

Indexed as

AnimalsBinding SitesCatalysisCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteine EndopeptidasesEscherichia coliGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicHistamineInfectious bronchitis virusMutagenesis, Site-DirectedProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalProteinsRecombinant ProteinsViral Proteins3C-like proteinase, Avian infectious bronchitis virusCoronavirus 3C ProteasesCysteine EndopeptidasesHistamineProteinsRecombinant ProteinsViral Proteins

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PMID10392722
PMCPMC7126649
OpenAlexW2126897298

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