title: Mapping of domains on the human parainfluenza virus type 2 nucleocapsid protein (NP) required for NP-phosphoprotein or NP-NP interaction.
abstract: The epitopes recognized by 41 monoclonal antibodies directed against the nucleocapsid protein (NP) of human parainfluenza virus type 2 (hPIV-2) were mapped on the primary structure of the hPIV-2 NP protein by testing their reactivities with deletion mutants. By Western immunoblotting using these monoclonal antibodies, the analysis of deletion mutants of the hPIV-2 NP protein was performed to identify the region essential for NP-NP interaction and phosphoprotein (P)-binding sites on the NP protein. The results indicate that the N-terminal 294 aa of the NP protein are all required for NP-NP self-assembly, and that two C-terminal parts of the NP protein are essential for NP-P binding: one region, aa 295-402, is required for binding to the C-terminal part of the P protein and another region, aa 403-494, to the N-terminal part of the P protein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Machiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Masato
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsurudome
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Morihiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Mitsuo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawano
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kusagawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Komada
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Mie University School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu-Shi, Mie-Ken, 514-8507, Japan1.
authors.forename: Yasuhiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D001665:Binding Sites; D019556:COS Cells; D018604:Epitope Mapping; D018985:Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010223:Parainfluenza Virus 2, Human / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D018985:Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte; D019590:Nucleocapsid Proteins; D010750:Phosphoproteins