NDLI: Maturation Mechanism of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus 3C-like Proteinase*

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Author	Li, Chunmei Qi, Yifei Teng, Xin Yang, Zongchang Wei, Ping Zhang, Changsheng Tan, Lei Zhou, Lu Liu, Ying Lai, Luhua
Abstract	The 3C-like proteinase (3CLpro) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus plays a vital role in virus maturation and is proposed to be a key target for drug design against SARS. Various in vitro studies revealed that only the dimer of the matured 3CLpro is active. However, as the internally encoded 3CLpro gets matured from the replicase polyprotein by autolytic cleavage at both the N-terminal and the C-terminal flanking sites, it is unclear whether the polyprotein also needs to dimerize first for its autocleavage reaction. We constructed a large protein containing the cyan fluorescent protein (C), the N-terminal flanking substrate peptide of SARS 3CLpro (XX), SARS 3CLpro (3CLP), and the yellow fluorescent protein (Y) to study the autoprocessing of 3CLpro using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. In contrast to the matured 3CLpro, the polyprotein, as well as the one-step digested product, 3CLP-Y-His, were shown to be monomeric in gel filtration and analytic ultracentrifuge analysis. However, dimers can still be induced and detected when incubating these large proteins with a substrate analog compound in both chemical cross-linking experiments and analytic ultracentrifuge analysis. We also measured enzyme activity under different enzyme concentrations and found a clear tendency of substrate-induced dimer formation. Based on these discoveries, we conclude that substrate-induced dimerization is essential for the activity of SARS-3CLpro in the polyprotein, and a modified model for the 3CLpro maturation process was proposed. As many viral proteases undergo a similar maturation process, this model might be generally applicable.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.m109.095851
Ending Page	28140
Page Count	7
Starting Page	28134
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00219258
e-ISSN	1083351X
Journal	The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Issue Number	36
Volume Number	285
Language	English
Publisher	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Publisher Date	2010-09-03
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Subject Keyword	Cell Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Cell Biology Biochemistry Molecular Biology

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