Structure-guided mutagenesis of active site residues in the dengue virus two-component protease NS2B-NS3 |
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Authors: | Wanisa Salaemae Muhammad Junaid Chanan Angsuthanasombat Gerd Katzenmeier |
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Affiliation: | (1) Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Phutthamonthon 4 Rd, 73170 Nakornpathom, Thailand;(2) Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Division of Pharmacology, Uppsala University, 75124 Uppsala, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Background The dengue virus two-component protease NS2B/NS3 mediates processing of the viral polyprotein precursor and is therefore an important determinant of virus replication. The enzyme is now intensively studied with a view to the structure-based development of antiviral inhibitors. Although 3-dimensional structures have now been elucidated for a number of flaviviral proteases, enzyme-substrate interactions are characterized only to a limited extend. The high selectivity of the dengue virus protease for the polyprotein precursor offers the distinct advantage of designing inhibitors with exquisite specificity for the viral enzyme. To identify important determinants of substrate binding and catalysis in the active site of the dengue virus NS3 protease, nine residues, L115, D129, G133, T134, Y150, G151, N152, S163 and I165, located within the S1 and S2 pockets of the enzyme were targeted by alanine substitution mutagenesis and effects on enzyme activity were fluorometrically assayed. |
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