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CHEMISTRYOPEN
卷 10, 期 11, 页码 1133-1141出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/open.202100217
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SARS-CoV-2; orf7a protein; Tetherin; BST2; XANES; Zn speciation
The study demonstrates that zinc binds to both BST2 and orf7a, leading to the formation of BST2-orf7a complexes which interfere with BST2's antiviral activity.
We present in this work a first X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy study of the interactions of Zn with human BST2/tetherin and SARS-CoV-2 orf7a proteins as well as with some of their complexes. The analysis of the XANES region of the measured spectra shows that Zn binds to BST2, as well as to orf7a, thus resulting in the formation of BST2-orf7a complexes. This structural information confirms the the conjecture, recently put forward by some of the present Authors, according to which the accessory orf7a (and possibly also orf8) viral protein are capable of interfering with the BST2 antiviral activity. Our explanation for this behavior is that, when BST2 gets in contact with Zn bound to the orf7a Cys(15) ligand, it has the ability of displacing the metal owing to the creation of a new disulfide bridge across the two proteins. The formation of this BST2-orf7a complex destabilizes BST2 dimerization, thus impairing the antiviral activity of the latter.
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