Article
The effect of mutant peptide cofactors on adenovirus protease activity and virus infection.
Virology - 25 Apr 2000
Ruzindana-Umunyana A, Sircar S, Weber J M
Abstract excerpt
Adenoviruses encode a cysteine protease, adenain, required for uncoating and virion maturation. Adenain activity is regulated by an 11-amino-acid peptide cofactor thiol-bonded distal to the active site. Structural and experimental data suggest that the peptide might stabilize adenain in an optimal conformation for enzyme activity by bridging two noncontiguous regions of the molecule. The sequence requirements for...
Topics
- Adenoviruses, Human
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Cell Line
- Coenzymes
- Conserved Sequence
- Cysteine Endopeptidases
- Disulfides
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Enzyme Activation
- Enzyme Stability
