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Affinity Purification of Influenza Virus Ribonucleoprotein Complexes from the Chromatin of Infected Cells
Published on: June 3, 2012
An important amino acid in nucleoprotein contributes to influenza A virus replication by interacting with polymerase
Xun Gui1, Rui Li2, Xuhui Zhang1
1National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectiou Diseases, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, Fujian, China.
Abstract:
The nucleoprotein (NP) of influenza A virus plays a critical role in the formation of viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complex. However, it remains unclear which key residues in NP are associated with the assembly of vRNP and contribute to virus replication. Here, a highly conserved aspartic acid at residue 88 (D88) of NP was identified by molecular docking of NP with the Fv region of a broad-spectrum anti-NP mAb 19C10 and further demonstrated to be an important residue contributes to the RNP activity, virus growth in MDCK cells and replication in lungs of infected mice by comparing recombinant wild-type A/WSN/1933 virus to the mutant virus that contains an alanine instead of aspartic acid at NP residue 88. D88 was also predicted to interact with PB2 by molecular docking and further verified by immunoprecipitation. These findings provide new information for understanding the interaction between NP and other polymerase subunits in virus replication.
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