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G J O'Brien1, C J Bryant, C Voogd
1Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Plant Science Research Groups, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Abstract:
The rotavirus major inner capsid protein (VP6) has been expressed in Nicotiana benthamiana plants using vectors based on potato virus X (PVX). VP6 was expressed either as a fusion with the PVX coat protein or from an additional subgenomic promoter inserted to enable both VP6 and PVX coat protein to be expressed independently. Both approaches yielded VP6, which retained the ability to form trimers. VP6 expressed from the subgenomic promoter assembled into paracrystalline sheets and tubes. Expression as a fusion protein yielded PVX rods that presented an external "overcoat" of VP6, but unexpectedly, some rotavirus protein also assembled into icosahedral viruslike particles (VLPs). The assembly of viral protein into VLPs suggests that prior display of VP6 on the flexuous PVX rod facilitates the subsequent assembly of VP6 into stable icosahedral particles.
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