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ArticleVirology2007

The nonstructural protein 8 (nsp8) of the SARS coronavirus interacts with its ORF6 accessory protein.

Purnima Kumar, Vithiagaran Gunalan, Boping Liu, Vincent T K Chow, Julian Druce, Chris Birch, Mike Catton, Burtram C Fielding, Yee-Joo Tan, Sunil K Lal

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Article in Virology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41 citing papers in PubMed, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Purnima KumarVirology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, P. O. Box: 10504, Aruna Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi 110067, India.
Vithiagaran Gunalan
Boping Liu
Vincent T K Chow
Julian Druce
Chris Birch
Mike Catton
Burtram C Fielding
Yee-Joo Tan
Sunil K Lal
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory · AUInstitute of Molecular and Cell Biology · SGInternational Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology · INNational University of Singapore · SGAgency for Science, Technology and Research · SG

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) caused a severe outbreak in several regions of the world in 2003. The SARS-CoV genome is predicted to contain 14 functional open reading frames (ORFs). The first ORF (1a and 1b) encodes a large polyprotein that is cleaved into nonstructural proteins (nsp). The other ORFs encode for four structural proteins (spike, membrane, nucleocapsid and envelope) as well as eight SARS-CoV-specific accessory proteins (3a, 3b, 6, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b and 9b). In this report we have cloned the predicted nsp8 gene and the ORF6 gene of the SARS-CoV and studied their abilities to interact with each other. We expressed the two proteins as fusion proteins in the yeast two-hybrid system to demonstrate protein-protein interactions and tested the same using a yeast genetic cross. Further the strength of the interaction was measured by challenging growth of the positive interaction clones on increasing gradients of 2-amino trizole. The interaction was then verified by expressing both proteins separately in-vitro in a coupled-transcription translation system and by coimmunoprecipitation in mammalian cells. Finally, colocalization experiments were performed in SARS-CoV infected Vero E6 mammalian cells to confirm the nsp8-ORF6 interaction. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of the interaction between a SARS-CoV accessory protein and nsp8 and our findings suggest that ORF6 protein may play a role in virus replication.

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AnimalsCell LineChlorocebus aethiopsCloning, MolecularCytoplasmImmunoprecipitationMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceProtein BindingSevere acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirusTwo-Hybrid System TechniquesViral Nonstructural Proteinsnonstructural protein, coronavirusViral Nonstructural Proteins

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PMID17532020
PMCPMC7103355
OpenAlexW1996484734

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