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A more recent version of this article appeared on March 23, 2001
Papers In Press, published online ahead of print December 19, 2000
J. Biol. Chem, 10.1074/jbc.M009398200
Submitted on October 16, 2000
Revised on November 29, 2000
Accepted on December 18, 2000
Rotavirus nonstructural protein NSP2 self-assembles into octamers that undergo ligand-induced conformational changes
Peter Schuck, Zenobia Taraporewala, Peter McPhie, and John T. Patton
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
Corresponding Author: jpatton{at}niaid.nih.gov
The nonstructural protein NSP2 is a component of the rotavirus replication machinery, and binds single-stranded RNA cooperatively, with high affinity, and independent of sequence. Recently, NSP2 has been shown to form multimers and to possess an NTPase activity, but its precise function remains unclear. In the present study, we have characterized the solution structure of recombinant NSP2 by velocity and equilibrium ultracentrifugation, dynamic light scattering, and circular dichroism spectroscopy. We found that NSP2 exists as an octamer, which is functional in the binding of RNA and ADP. In the presence of magnesium, a partial dissociation of the octamer into smaller oligomers was observed. This was reversed by binding of ADP and RNA. We observed an increased sedimentation rate in the presence of ADP and a non-hydrolyzable ATP analogue, which suggests a change towards a significantly more compact octameric conformation. The secondary structure of NSP2 showed a high fraction of beta-sheet, with small changes induced by magnesium that were reversed in the presence of RNA. That NSP2 can exist in different conformations lends support to the previously proposed hypothesis (Taraporewala et al., J. Virology, Vol. 73, 9934-43) of its function as a molecular motor involved in the packaging of viral mRNA.

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