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Journal of Virology, October 2000, p. 9586-9593, Vol. 74, No. 20
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Biochemical Characterization of the Equine Arteritis Virus
Helicase Suggests a Close Functional Relationship between
Arterivirus and Coronavirus Helicases
Anja
Seybert,1
Leonie C.
van Dinten,2,
Eric J.
Snijder,2 and
John
Ziebuhr1,*
Institute of Virology and Immunology,
University of Würzburg, Würzburg,
Germany,1 and Department of Virology,
Center of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center,
Leiden, The Netherlands2
Received 15 June 2000/Accepted 18 July 2000
The arterivirus equine arteritis virus nonstructural protein 10 (nsp10) has previously been predicted to contain a Zn finger structure
linked to a superfamily 1 (SF1) helicase domain. A recombinant form of
nsp10, MBP-nsp10, was produced in Escherichia coli as a
fusion protein with the maltose-binding protein. The protein was
partially purified by affinity chromatography and shown to have ATPase
activity that was strongly stimulated by poly(dT), poly(U), and
poly(dA) but not by poly(G). The protein also had both RNA and DNA
duplex-unwinding activities that required the presence of 5'
single-stranded regions on the partial-duplex substrates, indicating a 5'-to-3' polarity in the unwinding reaction. Results of
this study suggest a close functional relationship between the
arterivirus nsp10 and the coronavirus helicase, for which NTPase and
duplex-unwinding activities were recently demonstrated. In a number
of biochemical properties, both arterivirus and coronavirus SF1
helicases differ significantly from the previously characterized RNA
virus SF1 and SF2 enzymes. Thus, the combined data strongly support the idea that nidovirus helicases may represent a separate group of RNA virus-encoded helicases with distinct properties.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of
Virology and Immunology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Str.
7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany. Phone: 49-931-2013966. Fax:
49-931-2013934. E-mail: ziebuhr{at}vim.uni-wuerzburg.de.

Present address: Department of Molecular Virology, Institut
Jacques-Monod, 75251 Paris Cedex 05,
France.
Journal of Virology, October 2000, p. 9586-9593, Vol. 74, No. 20
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