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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
Volume 86, Issue 14, Pages 7565-7576Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00118-12
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- Program for Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Biosciences of Japan
- Core Research for Evolution Science and Technology (CREST)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23121519, 22550152, 23657104] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The genomes of the Tomato mosaic virus and many other plant and animal positive-strand RNA viruses of agronomic and medical importance encode superfamily 1 helicases. Although helicases play important roles in viral replication, the crystal structures of viral superfamily 1 helicases have not been determined. Here, we report the crystal structure of a fragment (S666 to Q1116) of the replication protein from Tomato mosaic virus. The structure reveals a novel N-terminal domain tightly associated with a helicase core. The helicase core contains two RecA-like alpha/beta domains without any of the accessory domain insertions that are found in other superfamily 1 helicases. The N-terminal domain contains a flexible loop, a long a-helix, and an antiparallel six-stranded beta-sheet. On the basis of the structure, we constructed deletion mutants of the S666-to-Q1116 fragment and performed split-ubiquitin-based interaction assays in Saccharomyces cerevisiae with TOM1 and ARL8, host proteins that are essential for tomato mosaic virus RNA replication. The results suggested that both TOM1 and ARL8 interact with the long a-helix in the N-terminal domain and that TOMI also interacts with the helicase core. Prediction of secondary structures in other viral superfamily 1 helicases and comparison of those structures with the S666-to-Q1116 structure suggested that these helicases have a similar fold. Our results provide a structural basis of viral superfamily 1 helicases.
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