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Protein & Peptide Letters

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ISSN (Print): 0929-8665
ISSN (Online): 1875-5305

Structural Disorder in Proteins of the Rhabdoviridae Replication Complex

Author(s): Cedric Leyrat, Francine C.A. Gerard, Euripedes de Almeida Ribeiro Jr., Ivan Ivanov, Rob W.H. Ruigrok and Marc Jamin

Volume 17, Issue 8, 2010

Page: [979 - 987] Pages: 9

DOI: 10.2174/092986610791498939

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Abstract

Rhabdoviridae are single stranded negative sense RNA viruses. The viral RNA condensed by the nucleoprotein (N), the phosphoprotein (P) and the large subunit (L) of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase are the viral components of the transcription/replication machineries. Both P and N contain intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) that play different roles in the virus life cycle. Here, we describe the modular organization of P based on recent structural, biophysical and bioinformatics data. We show how flexible loops in N participate in the attachment of P to the N-RNA template by an induced- fit mechanism. Finally, we discuss the roles of IDRs in the mechanism of replication/transcription, and propose a new model for the interaction of the L subunit with its N-RNA template.

Keywords: Rhabdoviridae, replication complex, phosphoprotein, nucleoprotein, intrinsically disordered regions


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