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J Gen Virol ; 95(Pt 9): 1919-1928, 2014 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24878641

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White tail disease (WTD) kills prawn larvae and causes drastic losses to the freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) industry. The main causative agent of WTD is Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV). The N-terminal end of the MrNV capsid protein is very rich in positively charged amino acids and is postulated to interact with RNA molecules. N-terminal and internal deletion mutagenesis revealed that the RNA-binding region is located at positions 20-29, where 80 % of amino acids are positively charged. Substitution of all these positively charged residues with alanine abolished the RNA binding. Mutants without the RNA-binding region still assembled into virus-like particles, suggesting that this region is not a part of the capsid assembly domain. This paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to report the specific RNA-binding region of MrNV capsid protein.


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Capsid Proteins/biosynthesis , Capsid Proteins/genetics , Nodaviridae/genetics , RNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , Virus Assembly/genetics , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Capsid/virology , Capsid Proteins/metabolism , Fish Diseases , Palaemonidae/classification , Palaemonidae/virology , Point Mutation/genetics , Protein Structure, Tertiary , RNA Virus Infections , RNA, Viral/genetics , Sequence Deletion/genetics
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