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J Virol, August 1998, p. 6758-6769, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Multiple Enzymatic Activities Associated with Recombinant NS3 Protein of Hepatitis C Virus

Paola Gallinari, Debra Brennan, Chiara Nardi, Mirko Brunetti, Licia Tomei, Christian Steinkühler, and Raffaele De Francesco*

Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare P. Angeletti (IRBM), 00040 Pomezia (Rome), Italy

Received 13 February 1998/Accepted 30 April 1998

The hepatitis C virus (HCV) nonstructural 3 protein (NS3) contains at least two domains associated with multiple enzymatic activities; a serine protease activity resides in the N-terminal one-third of the protein, whereas RNA helicase activity and RNA-stimulated nucleoside triphosphatase activity are associated with the C-terminal portion. To study the possible mutual influence of these enzymatic activities, a full-length NS3 polypeptide of 67 kDa was expressed as a nonfusion protein in Escherichia coli, purified to homogeneity, and shown to retain all three enzymatic activities. The protease activity of the full-length NS3 was strongly dependent on the activation by a synthetic peptide spanning the central hydrophobic core of the NS4A cofactor. Once complexed with the NS4A-derived peptide, the full-length NS3 protein and the isolated N-terminal protease domain cleaved synthetic peptide substrates with comparable efficiency. We show that, as in the case of the isolated protease domain, the protease activity of full-length NS3 undergoes inhibition by the N-terminal cleavage products of substrate peptides corresponding to the NS4A-NS4B and NS5A-NS5B. We have also characterized and quantified the NS3 ATPase, RNA helicase, and RNA-binding activities under optimized reaction conditions. Compared with the isolated N-terminal and C-terminal domains, recombinant full-length NS3 did not show significant differences in the three enzymatic activities analyzed in independent in vitro assays. We have further explored the possible interdependence of the NS3 N-terminal and C-terminal domains by analyzing the effect of polynucleotides on the modulation of all NS3 enzymatic functions. Our results demonstrated that the observed inhibition of the NS3 proteolytic activity by single-stranded RNA is mediated by direct interaction with the protease domain rather than with the helicase RNA-binding domain.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare P. Angeletti (IRBM), Via Pontina Km 30.600, 00040 Pomezia (Rome), Italy. Phone: 39 6 91093203. Fax: 39 6 91093654. E-mail: Defrancesco{at}IRBM.it.

J Virol, August 1998, p. 6758-6769, Vol. 72, No. 8
0022-538X/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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