NIH R01 · 2024
Watching conformational rearrangements in picornavirus replication proteins
Project Summary Some of the most important new and (re)emerging pathogens are positive-strand RNA viruses, including coronavirus and picornaviruses Enterovirus D68, Enterovirus A71 and even poliovirus. These viruses can directly use their RNA genome to guide the synthesis of a large polyprotein, which must then be proteolyzed into its component parts, including the capsid proteins and enzymes important for genome replication and encapsidation. Virus RNA genomes are rather small, and so these viruses have evolved strategies to essentially expand their functional proteomes. For example, the picornavirus 3C protein is a multi-functional protein that has protease activity, binds RNA control…
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