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Journal of Virology, July 1999, p. 5411-5421, Vol. 73, No. 7
Laboratoire INRA de Virologie et
d'Immunologie Moléculaires,
Received 16 December 1998/Accepted 19 March 1999
The rotavirus nonstructural protein NSP3 is a sequence-specific RNA
binding protein that binds the nonpolyadenylated 3' end of the
rotavirus mRNAs. NSP3 also interacts with the translation initiation
factor eIF4GI and competes with the poly(A) binding protein. Deletion
mutations and point mutations of NSP3 from group A rotavirus (NSP3A),
expressed in Escherichia coli, indicate that the RNA
binding domain lies between amino acids 4 and 149. Similar results were
obtained with NSP3 from group C rotaviruses. Data also indicate that a
dimer of NSP3A binds one molecule of RNA and that dimerization is
necessary for strong RNA binding. The dimerization domain of NSP3 was
mapped between amino acids 150 and 206 by using the yeast two-hybrid
system. The eukaryotic initiation factor 4 GI subunit (eIF-4GI) binding
domain of NSP3A has been mapped in the last 107 amino acids of its C
terminus by using a pulldown assay and the yeast two-hybrid system.
NSP3 is composed of two functional domains separated by a dimerization domain.
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Identification of the RNA-Binding, Dimerization,
and eIF4GI-Binding Domains of Rotavirus Nonstructural Protein
NSP3
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Journal of Virology, July 1999, p. 5411-5421, Vol. 73, No. 7
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