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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70870-w
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- European Union Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie ETN ANTIVIRALS [642434]
- French Infrastructure for Integrated Structural Biology (FRISBI) [ANR-10INSB-05-01]
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Alphaviruses are (re-)emerging arboviruses of public health concern. The nsP3 gene product is one of the key players during viral replication. NsP3 comprises three domains: a macro domain, a zinc-binding domain and a hypervariable region. The macro domain is essential at both early and late stages of the replication cycle through ADP-ribose (ADPr) binding and de-ADP-ribosylation of host proteins. However, both its specific role and the precise molecular mechanism of de-ADP-ribosylation across specific viral families remains to be elucidated. Here we investigate by X-ray crystallography the mechanism of ADPr reactivity in the active site of Getah virus macro domain, which displays a peculiar substitution of one of the conserved residues in the catalytic loop. ADPr adopts distinct poses including a covalent bond between the C''1 of the ADPr and a conserved Togaviridae-specific cysteine. These different poses observed for ADPr may represent snapshots of the de-ADP-ribosylation mechanism, highlighting residues to be further characterised.
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