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Abstract

Most animal rotaviruses bind to a cell surface molecule that contains sialic acid (SA). We have recently isolated variants from simian rotavirus RRV which show an SA-independent phenotype. The VP4 protein of these variants was shown to have three amino acid changes with respect to the wt protein, one of them being Tyr-267 → Cys. In this work, we have investigated whether the new cysteine could interfere with the disulfide bond (Cys-318/Cys-380) present in the VP5 * subunit of the wt protein. Cysteine residues 318 and 380 were mutagenized in gpr8 and RRV VP4 genes, and the wt and mutant genes were transcribed and translated The protein products were analysed by electrophoresis under reducing and non-reducing conditions. This approach showed that, in the VP4 protein synthesized , Cys- 267 is capable of forming an alternate disulfide bond with Cys-318. This alternate bond also seems to occur in the VP4 protein present in the variant gpr8 virus particles.

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