Sequence analysis and structure prediction of the methyltransferase of duck Tembusu virus / 中国人兽共患病学报

ABSTRACT

In order to determine the amino acid sequence of functionthat play a role of methyltransferase (MTase) activity in duck Tembusu virus (DTMUV),we have made sequence analysis and structure prediction of the MTase in DTMUV by bioin formatics methods,as well as using the sequence and structure of MTase in other flaviviruses which have been reported.The bioinformatical analysis results showed that the MTase and the MTase of other three kinds of flaviviruses had the higher homology in nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence,for 64.76％,64.55％,67.33％ and 74.71％,68.45％,75.15％ respectively,and the same basic structural characteristics which contained SAM binding site and had a typical of 4 alpha screw and 7 beta folding.At the same time,there were classical conservative sites K-D-K-E of flavivirus MTase in DTMUV MTase sequence.In conclusion,they imply that the MTase of DTMUV might belong to MTase family of flaviviruses.