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ArticleJournal of virology2001

Tetramerization is a conserved feature of the virion-associated protein in plant pararetroviruses.

L Stavolone, E Herzog, D Leclerc, T Hohn

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Article in Journal of virology, 2001. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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4 authors.

L StavoloneFriedrich Miescher Institute, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.
E Herzog
D Leclerc
T Hohn

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

All plant pararetroviruses belong to the Caulimoviridae family. This family contains six genera of viruses with different biological, serological, and molecular characteristics. Although some important mechanisms of viral replication and host infection are understood, much remains to be discovered about the many functions of the viral proteins. The focus of this study, the virion-associated protein (VAP), is conserved among all members of the group and contains a coiled-coil structure that has been shown to assemble as a tetramer in the case of cauliflower mosaic virus. We have used the yeast two-hybrid system to characterize self-association of the VAPs of four distinct plant pararetroviruses, each belonging to a different genus of Caulimoviridae. Chemical cross-linking confirmed that VAPs assemble into tetramers. Tetramerization is thus a common property of these proteins in plant pararetroviruses. The possible implications of this conserved feature for VAP function are discussed.

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Amino Acid SequenceCaulimovirusConserved SequenceDimerizationMolecular Sequence DataPlantsViral ProteinsVirionViral Proteins

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PMID11462048
PMCPMC115011

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