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ArticleNature communications2024

Structures of the mumps virus polymerase complex via cryo-electron microscopy.

Tianhao Li, Mingdong Liu, Zhanxi Gu, Xin Su, Yunhui Liu, Jinzhong Lin, Yu Zhang, Qing-Tao Shen

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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8 authors.

Tianhao Li *School of Life Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Mingdong Liu *School of Life Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Zhanxi GuUniversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
Xin SuSchool of Life Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5127-7275
Yunhui LiuSchool of Life Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Jinzhong LinState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5666-8526
Yu ZhangKey Laboratory of Synthetic Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200032, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1778-8389
Qing-Tao ShenSchool of Life Sciences, Department of Chemical Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. shenqt@sustech.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1672-6300

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32241028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The viral polymerase complex, comprising the large protein (L) and phosphoprotein (P), is crucial for both genome replication and transcription in non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses (nsNSVs), while structures corresponding to these activities remain obscure. Here, we resolved two L-P complex conformations from the mumps virus (MuV), a typical member of nsNSVs, via cryogenic-electron microscopy. One conformation presents all five domains of L forming a continuous RNA tunnel to the methyltransferase domain (MTase), preferably as a transcription state. The other conformation has the appendage averaged out, which is inaccessible to MTase. In both conformations, parallel P tetramers are revealed around MuV L, which, together with structures of other nsNSVs, demonstrates the diverse origins of the L-binding X domain of P. Our study links varying structures of nsNSV polymerase complexes with genome replication and transcription and points to a sliding model for polymerase complexes to advance along the RNA templates.

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Cryoelectron MicroscopyMumps virusViral ProteinsDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesModels, MolecularPhosphoproteinsProtein ConformationProtein DomainsRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralTranscription, GeneticVirus ReplicationDNA-Directed RNA PolymerasesPhosphoproteinsRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralViral Proteins

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PMCPMC11101452

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