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ArticleJournal of biochemistry2008

Saturation mutagenesis reveals that GLU54 of norovirus 3C-like protease is not essential for the proteolytic activity.

Yuichi Someya, Naokazu Takeda, Takaji Wakita

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Article in Journal of biochemistry, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yuichi SomeyaDepartment of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. someya@nih.go.jp
Naokazu Takeda
Takaji Wakita
National Institute of Infectious Diseases · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The norovirus 3C-like protease is a member of the chymotrypsin-like serine protease superfamily. Previous characterization of its crystal structure has implicated the Glu54-His30-Cys139 triad in the catalysis. In the present study, the Glu54 residue of the protease was subjected to site-saturation mutagenesis, with the result that nearly half of the mutants retained the significant proteolytic activity. It was suggested that a carboxylate at position 54 was not essential for the activity. The in vitro assays of the proteolysis revealed that most of Glu54 mutants retained relatively high proteolytic activity. When the Glu54 mutation was combined with the Ser mutation of the Cys139 residue, a nucleophile, only the Asp54 and Gln54 mutations showed proteolytic activity comparable to that of the Ser139 single mutant, suggesting that a hydrogen bond between Glu54 and His30 was critical in the Ser139 background. These results suggested that the mechanism of the proteolysis by the wild-type norovirus 3C-like protease was different from that of typical chymotrypsin-like serine proteases.

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3C Viral ProteasesCatalysisCysteine EndopeptidasesGlutamic AcidModels, GeneticMutagenesis, Site-DirectedMutationNorovirusProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalSubstrate SpecificityViral Proteins3C Viral ProteasesCysteine EndopeptidasesGlutamic AcidViral Proteins

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PMID18838436
PMCPMC7109903
OpenAlexW1967003666

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