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C-terminal domain of SARS-CoV main protease can form a 3D domain-swapped dimer.

ABSTRACT: SARS coronavirus main protease (M(pro)) plays an essential role in the extensive proteolytic processing of the viral polyproteins (pp1a and pp1ab), and it is an important target for anti-SARS drug development. We have reported that both the M(pro) C-terminal domain alone (M(pro)-C) and the N-finger deletion mutant of M(pro) (M(pro)-Delta7) exist as a stable dimer and a stable monomer (Zhong et al., J Virol 2008; 82:4227-4234). Here, we report structures of both M(pro)-C monomer and dimer. The structure of the M(pro)-C monomer is almost identical to that of the C-terminal domain in the crystal structure of M(pro). Interestingly, the M(pro)-C dimer structure is characterized by 3D domain-swapping, in which the first helices of the two protomers are interchanged and each is enwrapped by four other helices from the other protomer. Each folding subunit of the M(pro)-C domain-swapped dimer still has the same general fold as that of the M(pro)-C monomer. This special dimerization elucidates the structural basis for the observation that there is no exchange between monomeric and dimeric forms of M(pro)-C and M(pro)-Delta7.

SUBMITTER: Zhong N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2762595 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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C-terminal domain of SARS-CoV main protease can form a 3D domain-swapped dimer.

Zhong Nan N   Zhang Shengnan S   Xue Fei F   Kang Xue X   Zou Peng P   Chen Jiaxuan J   Liang Chao C   Rao Zihe Z   Jin Changwen C   Lou Zhiyong Z   Xia Bin B  

Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20090401 4

SARS coronavirus main protease (M(pro)) plays an essential role in the extensive proteolytic processing of the viral polyproteins (pp1a and pp1ab), and it is an important target for anti-SARS drug development. We have reported that both the M(pro) C-terminal domain alone (M(pro)-C) and the N-finger deletion mutant of M(pro) (M(pro)-Delta7) exist as a stable dimer and a stable monomer (Zhong et al., J Virol 2008; 82:4227-4234). Here, we report structures of both M(pro)-C monomer and dimer. The st  ...[more]

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