title: Characterization of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) helicase activity and its modulation by CSFV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
abstract: Classical swine fever virus (CSFV) nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) is believed to possess three enzyme activities that are likely to be essential for virus replication: a serine protease located in the N-terminus and NTPase as well as helicase activities located in the C-terminus. In this report, we expressed NS3 helicase domain (NS3h) in E. coli and characterized its helicase activity. The NS3h helicase activity was dependent on the presence of NTP and divalent cations, with a preference for ATP and Mn(2+), and required the substrates possessing a 3' un-base-paired region on the RNA template strand. The NS3h helicase activity was proportional to increasing lengths of the 3' un-base-paired regions up to 16 nucleotides of the RNA substrates. We also investigated the modulation of NS3 NTPase/helicase activities by NS3 protease domain and NS5B, an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Our data showed that the NS3 protease domain enhanced the helicase activity of NS3 but had no effect on its NTPase activity. For the truncated NS3 (helicase domain, NS3h), both NTPase and helicase activities were up-regulated by NS5B. However, for the full-length NS3 (NS3FL), the NTPase activity, but not the helicase activity, was stimulated by NS5B. Maltose-binding protein (MBP) pull-down as well as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays confirmed the specific interaction between NS3 and NS5B.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors.forename: Guoyuan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Jinnuo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Yanping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Chuyu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zishu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D006692:Classical Swine Fever Virus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000201:enzymology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D015870:Gene Expression; D011485:Protein Binding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D020365:RNA Helicases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins; D012324:RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase; D020365:RNA Helicases