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ArticleJournal of virology2021

Capsid-E2 Interactions Rescue Core Assembly in Viruses That Cannot Form Cytoplasmic Nucleocapsid Cores.

Julie M Button, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay

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Article in Journal of virology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Current perspectives on alphavirus encapsidation, assembly and budding.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julie M ButtonDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Suchetana MukhopadhyayDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9230-4746
Indiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

Graduate Program in Quantitative and Chemical Biology at Indiana University BloomT32GM109825 · NIGMS · TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY · PI GIEDROC, DAVID P. · 2014 to 2018
$926k
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32GM109825NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM109825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alphavirus capsid proteins (CPs) have two domains: the N-terminal domain (NTD), which interacts with the viral RNA, and the C-terminal domain (CTD), which forms CP-CP interactions and interacts with the cytoplasmic domain of the E2 spike protein (cdE2). In this study, we examine how mutations in the CP NTD affect CP CTD interactions with cdE2. We changed the length and/or charge of the NTD of Ross River virus CP and found that changing the charge of the NTD has a greater impact on core and virion assembly than changing the length of the NTD. The NTD CP insertion mutants are unable to form cytoplasmic cores during infection, but they do form cores or core-like structures in virions. Our results are consistent with cdE2 having a role in core maturation during virion assembly and rescuing core formation when cytoplasmic cores are not assembled. We go on to find that the isolated cores from some mutant virions are now assembly competent in that they can be disassembled and reassembled back into cores. These results show how the two domains of CP may have distinct yet coordinated roles.

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Virus AssemblyAlphavirusAlphavirus InfectionsAnimalsCapsid ProteinsCell LineCricetinaeNucleocapsidCapsid Proteinsalphavirusassemblyglycoproteinsnucleocapsid core

Identifiers

PMID34495691
PMCPMC8549512
OpenAlexW3198297224

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