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ArticleProtein & cell2010

Structures of the N- and C-terminal domains of MHV-A59 nucleocapsid protein corroborate a conserved RNA-protein binding mechanism in coronavirus.

Yanlin Ma, Xiaohang Tong, Xiaoling Xu, Xuemei Li, Zhiyong Lou, Zihe Rao

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Article in Protein & cell, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yanlin MaLife National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.
Xiaohang Tong
Xiaoling Xu
Xuemei Li
Zhiyong Lou
Zihe Rao
Chinese Academy of Sciences · CNTsinghua University · CNInstitute of Biophysics · CNUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

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Abstract

Coronaviruses are the causative agent of respiratory and enteric diseases in animals and humans. One example is SARS, which caused a worldwide health threat in 2003. In coronaviruses, the structural protein N (nucleocapsid protein) associates with the viral RNA to form the filamentous nucleocapsid and plays a crucial role in genome replication and transcription. The structure of N-terminal domain of MHV N protein also implicated its specific affinity with transcriptional regulatory sequence (TRS) RNA. Here we report the crystal structures of the two proteolytically resistant N- (NTD) and C-terminal (CTD) domains of the N protein from murine hepatitis virus (MHV). The structure of NTD in two different crystal forms was solved to 1.5 Å. The higher resolution provides more detailed structural information than previous reports, showing that the NTD structure from MHV shares a similar overall and topology structure with that of SARS-CoV and IBV, but varies in its potential surface, which indicates a possible difference in RNA-binding module. The structure of CTD was solved to 2.0-Å resolution and revealed a tightly intertwined dimer. This is consistent with analytical ultracentrifugation experiments, suggesting a dimeric assembly of the N protein. The similarity between the structures of these two domains from SARS-CoV, IBV and MHV corroborates a conserved mechanism of nucleocapsid formation for coronaviruses.

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Amino Acid SequenceBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayMolecular Sequence DataMurine hepatitis virusNucleocapsid ProteinsPhosphoproteinsProtein BindingProtein FoldingProtein MultimerizationProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryRNASequence AlignmentNucleocapsid ProteinsPhosphoproteinsRNA

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PMID21203940
PMCPMC4875274
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