Zhong W, Gutshall L L, Del Vecchio A M
Department of Molecular Virology and Host Defense, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, Pennsylvania 19426, USA.
J Virol. 1998 Nov;72(11):9365-9. doi: 10.1128/JVI.72.11.9365-9369.1998.
Nonstructural protein 5B (NS5B) of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) contains sequence motifs that are predictive of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity. We describe the expression and purification of the BVDV NS5B protein derived from an infectious cDNA clone of BVDV (NADL strain). BVDV NS5B protein was active in an in vitro RNA polymerase assay using homopolymeric RNA or BVDV minigenomic RNA templates. The major product was a covalently linked double-stranded molecule generated by a "copy-back" mechanism from the input template RNA. In addition, a nucleotide-nonspecific and template-independent terminal nucleotidyl transferase activity was observed with the BVDV NS5B preparation.
牛病毒性腹泻病毒(BVDV)的非结构蛋白5B(NS5B)含有可预测RNA依赖性RNA聚合酶活性的序列基序。我们描述了源自BVDV(NADL株)感染性cDNA克隆的BVDV NS5B蛋白的表达和纯化。BVDV NS5B蛋白在使用同聚RNA或BVDV微型基因组RNA模板的体外RNA聚合酶测定中具有活性。主要产物是由输入模板RNA通过“回环复制”机制产生的共价连接的双链分子。此外,在BVDV NS5B制剂中观察到了核苷酸非特异性和模板非依赖性末端核苷酸转移酶活性。