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The immobilized movement proteins of two tobamoviruses form stable ribonucleoprotein complexes with full‐length viral genomic RNA
Author(s) -
Kostja I. Ivanov,
Peter A. Ivanov,
E. K. Timofeeva,
Yuri L. Dorokhov,
J.G. Atabekov
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00477-3
Subject(s) - ribonucleoprotein , rna , tobacco mosaic virus , affinity chromatography , biology , biochemistry , recombinant dna , fusion protein , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , virology , virus , gene , enzyme
The movement proteins of two tobamoviruses (tobacco mosaic virus, TMV, common strain U1 and cruciferous TMV strain) containing amino‐terminal hexahistidine affinity tags were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified by metal chelate affinity chromatography. Purified recombinant proteins were immobilized to a Ni 2+ ‐chelate adsorbent and their ability to interact with full‐length genomic TMV RNA was tested. Here we report that binding of viral RNA to hexahistidine fusion movement proteins results in the formation of stable ribonucleoprotein complexes.