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El dominio de dimerización de la proteína nucleocápsida del SARS-CoV-2 está parcialmente desordenado y forma un
Jasmine Cubuk1,2, J Jeremías Incicco1,3, Kathleen B Hall1
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University in St. Louis, 660 Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Resumen
La proteína de la nucleocapsida del SARS-CoV-2
Área de la Ciencia:
- Virología
- Biología estructural
- La biofísica
Sus antecedentes:
- La proteína nucleocápsida (N) del SARS-CoV-2 es crucial para la compactación y el empaquetado del genoma viral.
- Comprender la dimerización de la proteína N es clave para dilucidar su papel en la replicación viral.
- Las dinámicas conformacionales del dominio de dimerización no están completamente caracterizadas.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Cuantificar los mecanismos que rigen la formación de un dímero de proteína N del SARS-CoV-2.
- Investigar las conformaciones y la energética del dominio de dimerización de la proteína N.
- Evaluar el impacto de la dimerización en la flexibilidad y función de la proteína N.
Principales métodos:
- Se empleó la transferencia de energía de resonancia de Förster de una sola molécula (smFRET).
- Se analizaron los estados conformacionales y la energética del dominio de dimerización.
- Se estudiaron los estados monoméricos y diméricos de la proteína N de longitud completa.
Principales resultados:
- La proteína N monomérica exhibe configuraciones de dominio de dimerización expandida.
- La adición de proteínas estabiliza un dímero plegado con una alta eficiencia de transferencia (constante de disociación de ~ 12 nM).
- La dimerización es impulsada entálpicamente, con plegamiento y unión acoplados.
Conclusiones:
- La dimerización de la proteína N del SARS-CoV-2 es un proceso estable impulsado entálpicamente.
- El dominio de dimerización existe como un conjunto dinámico en estados monoméricos.
- La flexibilidad dimérica retenida puede influir en las propiedades de unión y separación de fase del ARN.
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