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SUBMITTER: Soellick T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC15808 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soellick T T Uhrig J F JF Bucher G L GL Kellmann J W JW Schreier P H PH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20000201 5
The nonstructural NSm protein of tomato spotted wilt tospovirus (TSWV) represents a putative viral movement protein involved in cell-to-cell movement of nonenveloped ribonucleocapsid structures. To study the molecular basis of NSm function, we expressed the protein in Escherichia coli and investigated protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions of NSm protein in vitro. NSm specifically interacts with TSWV N protein and binds single-stranded RNA in a sequence-nonspecific manner. Using NSm as a b ...[more]