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Institut Jacques Monod, 2 Place Jussieu - Tour 43, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
The potyvirus helper component-proteinase (HC-Pro) is a multifunctional protein previously reported to have affinity for polyribonucleotides. To investigate further the ability of HC-Pro to bind nucleic acids, the potato virus Y (PVY) LYE84 isolate HC-Pro gene was amplified, cloned in an Escherichia coli expression vector and sequenced. HC-Pro was expressed as a fusion with the maltose-binding protein and purified by affinity chromatography. Electrophoretic mobility-shift assays demonstrated that HC-Pro acts as a sequence non-specific RNA-binding protein and suggest that more than one molecule of protein was bound per molecule of RNA. The HC-Pro RNA-binding activity was stable in 400 mM-NaCl and temperature sensitive. The recombinant protein preferentially bound ssRNA over DNA or dsRNA and showed little, if any, affinity for poly(A). The possible implications of the RNA-binding activity of HC-Pro in potyvirus replication and movement are discussed.
* Author for correspondence. Fax +33 1 44 27 35 80. e-mail frbernar@ccr.jussieu.fr
Received 30 October 1995;
accepted 17 January 1996.
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