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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Gotte B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5869498 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Götte Benjamin B Liu Lifeng L McInerney Gerald M GM
Viruses 20180228 3
Alphaviruses encode 4 non-structural proteins (nsPs), most of which have well-understood functions in capping and membrane association (nsP1), polyprotein processing and RNA helicase activity (nsP2) and as RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (nsP4). The function of nsP3 has been more difficult to pin down and it has long been referred to as the more enigmatic of the nsPs. The protein comprises three domains, an N-terminal macro domain, a central zinc-binding domain and a C-terminal hypervariable domain ...[more]