Role of Dynamics and Mutations in Interactions of a Zinc Finger Antiviral Protein with CG-rich Viral RNA.

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Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a host antiviral factor that selectively inhibits the replication of a variety of viruses. ZAP recognizes the CG-enriched RNA sequences and activates the viral RNA degradation machinery. In this work, we investigated the dynamics of a ZAP/RNA complex and computed the energetics of mutations in ZAP that affect its binding to the viral RNA. The crystal structure of a...

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