Structure of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus nucleoprotein: Superhelical homo-oligomers and the role of caspase-3 cleavage

Journal of Virology

Volumn 86, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 12294-12303

  Wang, Yi ^a   Dutta, Sujit ^b,c   Karlberg, Helen ^d,e   Devignot, Stéphanie ^f   Weber, Friedemann ^f   Hao, Quan ^a   Tan, Yee Joo ^b,g   Mirazimi, Ali ^d,e,h   Kotaka, Masayo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; VIRUS NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION;

BINDING SITES; CASPASE 3; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GENOME, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA, VIRAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BUNYAVIRIDAE; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; IXODIDA; NAIROVIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 84869134254     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01627-12     Document Type: Article

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