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Requirement for an aromatic amino acid or histidine at the N terminus of Sindbis virus RNA polymerase.
Journal of virology - 1 Mar 1998
Shirako Y, Strauss J H
Abstract excerpt
The N terminal amino acid of nonstructural protein nsP4, the viral RNA polymerase, is a tyrosine in all sequenced alphaviruses; this is a destabilizing amino acid for the N-end rule pathway and results in rapid degradation of nsP4 produced in infected cells or in reticulocyte lysates. We have constructed 11 mutants of Sindbis virus bearing Phe, Ala, Thr, Cys, Leu, Met, Asn, Gln, Glu, Arg, or Pro at the N terminus...
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