The Open Reading Frame 2 Product of Cacao Swollen Shoot Badnavirus Is a Nucleic Acid-Binding Protein

Autor: Mireille Jacquemond, Emmanuel Jacquot, L. S. Hagen, Pierre Yot
Přispěvatelé: Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes (IBMP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Unité de Pathologie Végétale (PV), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Virology
Virology, Elsevier, 1996, 225, pp.191-195. ⟨10.1006/viro.1996.0587⟩
ISSN: 0042-6822
1096-0341
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0587
Popis: International audience; The function of the open reading frame 2 product (p2) of cacao swollen shoot virus (CSSV) and of other badnaviruses is not yet determined. Their carboxyl-termini are lysine and proline rich and also contain alanine residues, amino acids present at the C-termini of histone-like proteins. Full-length CSSV p2 (132 amino acids) or versions truncated at the C-terminus (128, 113, 103, or 101 amino acids) were expressed in Escherichia coli and partially purified. When assayed in nucleic acid-binding tests, p2 was able to interact with CSSV and other double-stranded DNAs and with CSSV and other single-stranded RNA transcripts in a sequence-nonspecific manner. Moreover, this binding activity was progressively lost as the C-terminus was gradually deleted.
Databáze: OpenAIRE