An amino-proximal domain of the L protein binds to the P protein in the measles virus RNA polymerase complex.
The RNA polymerase of measles virus consists of two virus-encoded subunits, the L and P proteins with 2183 and 507 amino acids, respectively. When these proteins were coexpressed from plasmids in a mammalian expression system, a complex was formed as detected by the coimmunoprecipitation of the L protein with the P protein by anti-P antibodies. Pulse-chase experiments showed that complex formation increased the stability of the L protein. We have used the coimmunoprecipitation assay in conjunction with a series of C-terminal truncations of the L protein to map the region of the L protein which is involved in complex formation with the P protein. Mutant L proteins consisting of the N-terminal 1139, 916, 511, and 408 amino acids all bound to the P protein. An L protein truncation consisting of only the N-terminal 292 amino acids, which deleted part of the conserved domain I, however, did not bind the P protein. The data show that the N-terminal 408 amino acids of the L protein contain the P binding domain and suggest that domain I within this region of the L proteins of (-) strand RNA viruses may be important for RNA polymerase complex formation.[1]References
- An amino-proximal domain of the L protein binds to the P protein in the measles virus RNA polymerase complex. Horikami, S.M., Smallwood, S., Bankamp, B., Moyer, S.A. Virology (1994) [Pubmed]
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