Expression, purification, and in vitro activity of an arterivirus main proteinase

Virus Research
Danny Van AkenEric J Snijder

Abstract

To allow the biochemical and structural characterization of the chymotrypsin-like "main proteinase" (non-structural protein 4; nsp4) of the arterivirus prototype Equine Arteritis Virus (EAV), we developed protocols for the large-scale production of recombinant nsp4 in Escherichia coli. The nsp4 proteinase was expressed either fused to maltose binding protein or carrying a C-terminal hexahistidine tag. Following purification, the nsp4 moiety of MBP-nsp4 was successfully used for structural studies [Barrette-Ng, I.H., Ng, K.K.S., Mark, B.L., van Aken, D., Cherney, M.M., Garen, C, Kolodenko, Y., Gorbalenya, A.E., Snijder, E.J., James, M.N.G, 2002. Structure of arterivirus nsp4-the smallest chymotrypsin-like proteinase with an alpha/beta C-terminal extension and alternate conformations of the oxyanion hole. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 39960-39966]. Furthermore, both forms of the EAV proteinase were shown to be proteolytically active in two different trans-cleavage assays. Recombinant nsp4 cleaved the cognate nsp6/7- and nsp7/8 site in in vitro synthesized substrates. In a synthetic peptide-based activity assay, the potential of the recombinant proteinase to cleave peptides mimicking the P9-P7' residues of six nsp4 cleavage sites was invest...Continue Reading

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Aug 3, 2007·Acta Crystallographica. Section F, Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications·Xinsheng TianFeng Gao
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X-ray
gel filtration
protein assay
reversed-phase chromatography
cleavage assay
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