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ArticleJournal of virology2006

Oligomerization of hantavirus nucleocapsid protein: analysis of the N-terminal coiled-coil domain.

Agne Alminaite, Vera Halttunen, Vibhor Kumar, Antti Vaheri, Liisa Holm, Alexander Plyusnin

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Article in Journal of virology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Agne AlminaiteDepartment of Virology, Haartman Institute, P.O. Box 21, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Vera Halttunen
Vibhor Kumar
Antti Vaheri
Liisa Holm
Alexander Plyusnin
University of Helsinki · FICzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology · CZHelsinki Institute of Physics · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hantaviruses constitute a genus in the family Bunyaviridae. They are enveloped negative-strand RNA viruses with a tripartite genome encoding the nucleocapsid (N) protein, the two surface glycoproteins Gn and Gc, and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The N protein is the most abundant component of the virion; it encapsidates genomic RNA segments forming ribonucleoproteins and participates in genome transcription and replication as well as virus assembly. In the course of RNA encapsidation, N protein forms intermediate trimers via head-to-head and tail-to-tail interactions. We analyzed the amino-terminal trimerization domain (amino acid residues 1 to 77) of Tula hantavirus using computer modeling, mammalian two-hybrid assay, and immunofluorescence assay. The results obtained were consistent with the existence of an antiparallel coiled-coil stabilized by interactions between hydrophobic residues. Residues L44, V51, and L58 were important for the N-N interaction; other residues, e.g., L25 and V32, also made a contribution, albeit a modest one. Our alignments of the N-terminal domain of the hantaviral N proteins suggest the coiled-coil structure, and hence the mode of N-protein oligomerization, is conserved among hantaviruses.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsDimerizationHeLa CellsHumansMolecular Sequence DataNucleocapsid ProteinsOrthohantavirusProtein ConformationProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiarySequence Homology, Amino AcidNucleocapsid Proteins

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PMID16940519
PMCPMC1563903
OpenAlexW2128971907

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