Journal
VIRUSES-BASEL
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v13010033
Keywords
SFTSV; L protein; bunyavirus; polymerase activity
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- Research Program for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) [20fk0108081]
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The amino acid characteristics at position 1891 of the L protein are critical for its function, especially with respect to the charge status. Substitutions with basic amino acids enhance polymerase activity, while substitutions with acidic amino acids decrease this activity. Mutations to other neutral amino acids show no significant effect on activity.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus subclone B7 shows strong plaque formation and cytopathic effect induction compared with other subclones and the parental strain YG1. Compared to YG1 and the other subclones, only B7 possesses a single substitution in the L protein at the amino acid position 1891, in which N is changed to K (N1891K). In this study, we evaluate the effects of this mutation on L protein activity via a cell-based minigenome assay. Substitutions of N with basic amino acids (K or R) enhanced polymerase activity, while substitutions with an acidic amino acid (E) decreased this activity. Mutation to other neutral amino acids showed no significant effect on activity. These results suggest that the characteristic of the amino acid at position 1891 of the L protein are critical for its function, especially with respect to the charge status. Our data indicate that this C-terminal domain of the L protein may be crucial to its functions in genome transcription and viral replication.
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