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RNA- and DNA-binding activities in hepatitis B virus capsid protein: a model for their roles in viral replication.
Hatton T
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Zhou S
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Standring DN
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The hepatitis B virus capsid or core protein (p21.5) binds nucleic acid through a carboxy-terminal protamine region that contains nucleic acid-binding motifs organized into four repeats (I to IV). Using carboxy-terminally truncated proteins expressed in Escherichia coli, we detected both RNA- and DNA-binding activities within the repeats. RNA-binding and packaging activity, assessed by resolving purified E. coli capsids on agarose gels and disclosing their RNA content with ethidium bromide, required only the proximal repeat I (RRRDRGRS). Strikingly, a mutant in which four Arg residues replaced repeat I was competent to package RNA, demonstrating that Arg residues drive RNA binding. In contrast, probing immobilized core proteins with 32P-nucleic acid revealed an activity which (i) required more of the protamine region (repeats I and II), (ii) appeared to bind DNA better than RNA, and (iii) was apparently modulated by phosphorylation in p21.5 derived from Xenopus oocytes. Deletion analysis suggested that this activity may depend on an SPXX-type DNA-binding motif in repeat II. Similar motifs found in repeats III and IV may also function to bind DNA. On the basis of these observations, together with a reinterpretation of recent studies showing that capsid protein mutants cause defects in viral genome replication, we propose a model suggesting that hepadnavirus capsid proteins participate directly in the intracapsid reverse transcription of RNA into DNA. In this model, repeat I binds RNA whereas the distal repeats are progressively recruited to bind elongating DNA strands. The latter motifs may be required for replication to be energetically feasible.
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