Adenoviral E4 34K protein interacts with virus packaging components and may serve as the putative portal.
Sci Rep
; 7(1): 7582, 2017 08 08.
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| ID: mdl-28790440
ABSTRACT
Studies on dsDNA bacteriophages have revealed that a DNA packaging complex assembles at a special vertex called the 'portal vertex' and consists of a portal, a DNA packaging ATPase and other components. AdV protein IVa2 is presumed to function as a DNA packaging ATPase. However, a protein that functions as a portal is not yet identified in AdVs. To identify the AdV portal, we performed secondary structure analysis on a set of AdV proteins and compared them with the clip region of the portal proteins of bacteriophages phi29, SPP1 and T4. Our analysis revealed that the E4 34K protein of HAdV-C5 contains a region of strong similarity with the clip region of the known portal proteins. E4 34K was found to be present in empty as well as mature AdV particles. In addition, E4 34K co-immunoprecipitates and colocalizes with AdV packaging proteins. Immunogold electron microscopy demonstrated that E4 34K is located at a single site on the virus surface. Finally, tertiary structure prediction of E4 34K and its comparison with that of single subunits of Phi29, SPP1 and T4 portal proteins revealed remarkable similarity. In conclusion, our results suggest that E4 34K is the putative AdV portal protein.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
DNA, Viral
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Adenoviruses, Human
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Adenovirus E4 Proteins
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Virus Assembly
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Capsid Proteins
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Sci Rep
Year:
2017
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States