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1 Institut für Virologie, The Calicilab, Medizinisch-Theoretisches Zentrum, Fiedlerstraße 42, D-01307 Dresden, Germany
2 Institut für Immunologie, Medizinisch-Theoretisches Zentrum, Fiedlerstraße 42, D-01307 Dresden, Germany
Correspondence
Jacques Rohayem
Jacques.Rohayem{at}mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Norovirus (NV) 3Dpol is a non-structural protein predicted to play an essential role in the replication of the NV genome. In this study, the characteristics of NV 3Dpol activity and initiation of RNA synthesis have been examined in vitro. Recombinant NV 3Dpol, as well as a 3Dpol active-site mutant were expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. NV 3Dpol was able to synthesize RNA in vitro and displayed flexibility with respect to the use of Mg2+ or Mn2+ as a cofactor. NV 3Dpol yielded two different products when incubated with synthetic RNA in vitro: (i) a double-stranded RNA consisting of two single strands of opposite polarity or (ii) the single-stranded RNA template labelled at its 3' terminus by terminal transferase activity. Initiation of RNA synthesis occurred de novo rather than by back-priming, as evidenced by the fact that the two strands of the double-stranded RNA product could be separated, and by dissociation in time-course analysis of terminal transferase and RNA synthesis activities. In addition, RNA synthesis was not affected by blocking of the 3' terminus of the RNA template by a chain terminator, sustaining de novo initiation of RNA synthesis. NV 3Dpol displays in vitro properties characteristic of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, allowing the implementation of this in vitro enzymic assay for the development and validation of antiviral drugs against NV, a so far non-cultivated virus and an important human pathogen.
Patent pending DE no. 10 2005 036 085.8.
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