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ArticleProtein expression and purification2007

Expression and purification of a two-component flaviviral proteinase resistant to autocleavage at the NS2B-NS3 junction region.

Sergey A Shiryaev, Alexander E Aleshin, Boris I Ratnikov, Jeffrey W Smith, Robert C Liddington, Alex Y Strongin

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Article in Protein expression and purification, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sergey A ShiryaevInflammatory and Infectious Disease Center, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Alexander E Aleshin
Boris I Ratnikov
Jeffrey W Smith
Robert C Liddington
Alex Y Strongin
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · US

Funding

CORE 6 : PROJECT LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIONU54RR020843 · NCRR · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI SMITH, JEFFREY W · 2004 to 2009
$19.1M
Structure-based Drug Design for Smallpox TherapyU01AI061139 · NIAID · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI STRONGIN, ALEX Y · 2004 to 2008
$8.8M
Develop Effective Inhibitors of Anthrax Lethal FactorU01AI056385 · NIAID · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI STRONGIN, ALEX Y · 2003 to 2006
$3.3M
NCRR NIH HHS U54 RR020843NIAID NIH HHS AI056385NIAID NIH HHS AI61139NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI056385NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI061139
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulated proteolysis of the polyprotein precursor of West Nile virus (WNV) by the essential NS2B-NS3(pro)tease, a promising drug target for WNV inhibitors, is required for the propagation of infectious virions. Structural and drug design studies, however, require pilot-scale quantities of a pure and catalytically active WNV protease that is resistant to self-proteolysis. Autolytic cleavage at the NS2B-NS3 boundary leads to individual, non-covalently associated, NS2B and NS3 domains, together with residual amounts of the intact NS2B-NS3, in the NS2B-NS3pro samples. We modified the cleavage site sequence of the NS2B-NS3 junction region and then developed expression and purification procedures to prepare a covalently linked, single-chain, NS2B-NS3pro K48A mutant construct. This construct exhibits high stability and functional activity and is thus well suited for the follow-up purification and structural and drug design studies.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsAmino Acid SequenceDEAD-box RNA HelicasesEndopeptidasesGene ExpressionMolecular Sequence DataNucleoside-TriphosphatasePeptide HydrolasesRNA HelicasesSerine EndopeptidasesViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral ProteasesWest Nile virusDEAD-box RNA HelicasesEndopeptidasesNS2B protein, flavivirusNS3 protein, flavivirusNucleoside-TriphosphatasePeptide HydrolasesRNA HelicasesSerine EndopeptidasesViral Nonstructural ProteinsViral Proteases

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PMID17189703
PMCPMC1857357
OpenAlexW1976651066

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