In silico identification, structure prediction and phylogenetic analysis of the 2′-O-ribose (cap 1) methyltransferase domain in the large structural protein of ssRNA negative-strand viruses

被引:57
作者
Bujnicki, JM
Rychlewski, L
机构
[1] Int Inst Cell & Mol Biol, Bioinformat Lab, PL-02109 Warsaw, Poland
[2] BioInfoBank, PL-60744 Poznan, Poland
来源
PROTEIN ENGINEERING | 2002年 / 15卷 / 02期
关键词
bioinformatics; homology modeling; molecular evolution; mRNA capping; protein structure; RNA methyltransferase;
D O I
10.1093/protein/15.2.101
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The Escherichia coli RrmJ gene product has recently been shown to be the 23S rRNA:U2552 specific 2'-O-ribose methyltransferase (MTase) (RrmJ). Its structure has been solved and refined to 1.5 Angstrom resolution, demonstrating conservation of the three-dimensional fold and key catalytic side chains with the vaccinia virus VP39 protein, which functions as an mRNA 5'm(7)G-cap-N-specific 2'-O-ribose MTase. Using the amino acid sequence of RrmJ as an initial probe in an iterative search of sequence databases, we identified a homologous domain in the sequence of the L protein of non-segmented, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA viruses. The plausibility of the prediction was confirmed by homology modeling and checking whether important residues at substrate/ligand-binding sites were conserved. The predicted structural compatibility and the conservation of the active site between the novel putative MTase domain and genuine 2'-O-ribose MTases, together with the available results of biochemical studies, strongly suggest that this domain is a 5'm7G-cap-N-specific 2'-O-ribose MTase (i.e. the cap 1 MTase). Evolutionary relationships between these proteins are also discussed.
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页码:101 / 108
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