Nuclear magnetic resonance structure of the N-terminal domain of nonstructural protein 3 from the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus |
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Authors: | Serrano Pedro Johnson Margaret A Almeida Marcius S Horst Reto Herrmann Torsten Joseph Jeremiah S Neuman Benjamin W Subramanian Vanitha Saikatendu Kumar S Buchmeier Michael J Stevens Raymond C Kuhn Peter Wüthrich Kurt |
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Institution: | Department of Molecular Biology, MB-44, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the structure determination of nsp3a, the N-terminal domain of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) nonstructural protein 3. nsp3a exhibits a ubiquitin-like globular fold of residues 1 to 112 and a flexibly extended glutamic acid-rich domain of residues 113 to 183. In addition to the four beta-strands and two alpha-helices that are common to ubiquitin-like folds, the globular domain of nsp3a contains two short helices representing a feature that has not previously been observed in these proteins. Nuclear magnetic resonance chemical shift perturbations showed that these unique structural elements are involved in interactions with single-stranded RNA. Structural similarities with proteins involved in various cell-signaling pathways indicate possible roles of nsp3a in viral infection and persistence. |
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