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Identifying Dysregulated Genes Induced by Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus KSHV
Published on: September 14, 2010
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Portal de empaque de ADN y complejos de tegumento asociados a cápsidas en el virus del herpes tumoral KSHV
Danyang Gong1, Xinghong Dai2, Jonathan Jih3
1Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Cell
|August 27, 2019
Resumen
- ¿Qué es eso?
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biología estructural
- Virología
- Biología molecular
Sus antecedentes:
- El conjunto del herpesvirus asociado al sarcoma de Kaposi (KSHV) es complejo, e incluye un complejo portal, una cápside icosaédrica y complejos tegumentos asociados a cápsides (CATC).
- Los estudios anteriores fueron limitados en la resolución de las estructuras de portal y tegumento de KSHV debido a las desviaciones de la simetría icosaédrica.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Determinar la estructura in situ del complejo portal de KSHV y sus interacciones con los componentes virales.
- Para aclarar el mecanismo de la formación de procápsidos de KSHV y el empaque de ADN.
Principales métodos:
- Microscopía cryoelectrónica relajada por simetría (cryo-EM)
- Modelado atómico
- Mutagénesis basada en la estructura
Principales resultados:
- El estudio determinó la estructura atómica del portal KSHV y sus interacciones con las proteínas de la cápside, CATC y el genoma viral dsDNA.
- Se observó una ocupación y orientación variables de los CATC, lo que sugiere un papel en la determinación asimétrica de la fijación durante el envasado del ADN.
- Una ranura de unión profunda en el triplex para CATCs fue identificada como un potencial objetivo antiviral.
Conclusiones:
- El portal KSHV orquesta la formación de procápsidos y la fijación de CATC durante el empaque del ADN.
- El sitio de unión de CATC identificado representa un objetivo prometedor para el desarrollo de nuevas terapias antivirales contra el KSHV.
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