Preparation and characterization of monomodal grapevine virus a capsid protein

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2015

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Santana, Vinícius S.
Mariutti, Ricardo B.
Eberle, Raphael J.
Ullah, Anwar
Caruso, Icaro P.
Arni, Raghuvir K. [UNESP]

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Grapevine virus A (GVA), a flexible filament of approximately 800 nm in length is composed of capsid subunits that spontaneously assembles around a positive sense genomic RNA. In addition to encapsidation, plant viruses capsid proteins (CPs) participate in other processes throughout infection and GVA CP is involved in cell-to-cell translocation of the virus. A protocol was developed to obtain low-molecular weight GVA-CP that is not prone to aggregation and spontaneous assembly and this was characterized by circular dichroism and dynamic light scattering. These results indicate the suitably of GVA-CP for X-ray crystallographic and NMR studies that should lead to the elucidation of the first three-dimensional structure of a flexible filamentous virus from the Betaflexiviridae family.

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Protein And Peptide Letters, v. 22, n. 8, p. 712-718, 2015.