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SUBMITTER: Debarnot C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3053173 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Debarnot Claire C Imbert Isabelle I Ferron François F Gluais Laure L Varlet Isabelle I Papageorgiou Nicolas N Bouvet Mickaël M Lescar Julien J Decroly Etienne E Canard Bruno B
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20110225 Pt 3
To date, the SARS coronavirus is the only known highly pathogenic human coronavirus. In 2003, it was responsible for a large outbreak associated with a 10% fatality rate. This positive RNA virus encodes a large replicase polyprotein made up of 16 gene products (nsp1-16), amongst which two methyltransferases, nsp14 and nsp16, are involved in viral mRNA cap formation. The crystal structure of nsp16 is unknown. Nsp16 is an RNA-cap AdoMet-dependent (nucleoside-2'-O-)-methyltransferase that is only a ...[more]