Internal proteolysis of the NS3 protein specified by dengue virus 2. Free

Abstract

The NS3 protein of flaviviruses is a multifunctional polypeptide required for virus replication. Enzymic activities that have been demonstrated or predicted from the presence of sequence motifs include protease, NTPase, helicase and RNA triphosphatase. Both full-length and truncated forms of NS3 have been identified in infected cells. To examine internal cleavage of the NS3 protein of dengue virus 2 (DEN-2), infected cells or COS cells transfected with cDNA encoding NS2B/3 were radiolabelled and immunoprecipitated with antiserum against NS3 or hyperimmune mouse ascitic fluid. The polypeptides detected were NS2B/3 ( 83000), NS3 ( 69000), NS3′ ( 50000) and NS3" ( 19000). The latter polypeptide has not been previously identified. For DEN-2, it has been proposed that NS3′ results from cleavage at the site …RR| GR… within an RNA helicase sequence motif of NS3. Our results demonstrated that cleavage occurred at this site, and that prior cleavage between NS2B/NS3 was not necessary.

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