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The nucleoside triphosphatase and helicase activities of vaccinia virus NPH-II are essential for virus replication.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1998
Gross C H, Shuman S
Abstract excerpt
Vaccinia virus NPH-II is the prototypal RNA helicase of the DExH box protein family, which is defined by six shared sequence motifs. The contributions of conserved amino acids in motifs I (TGVGKTSQ), Ia (PRI), II (DExHE), and III (TAT) to enzyme activity were assessed by alanine scanning. NPH-II-Ala proteins were expressed in baculovirus-infected Sf9 cells, purified, and characterized with respect to their RNA...
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