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Lifei Chen1, Pu Chen1, Shengping Li2
1Provincial University Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Response and Metabolic Regulation & Fujian Key Laboratory of Developmental and Neural Biology, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The rice stripe virus (RSV) is responsible for devastating effects in East Asian rice-producing areas. The disease-specific protein (SP) level in rice plants determines the severity of RSV symptoms. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays confirmed the interaction between an R3H domain-containing host factor, OsR3H3, and RSV SP in vitro and in vivo. This study determined the crystal structure of SP at 1.71 Å. It is a monomer with a clear shallow groove to accommodate host factors. Docking OsR3H3 into the groove generates an SP/OsR3H3 complex, which provides insights into the protein-binding mechanism of SP. Furthermore, SP's protein-binding properties and model-defined recognition residues were assessed using mutagenesis, ITC, and BiFC assays. This study revealed the structure and preliminary protein interaction mechanisms of RSV SP, shedding light on the molecular mechanism underlying the development of RSV infection symptoms.
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