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. 1992 Nov;66(11):6322–6329. doi: 10.1128/jvi.66.11.6322-6329.1992

Brome mosaic virus RNA replication proteins 1a and 2a from a complex in vitro.

C C Kao 1, R Quadt 1, R P Hershberger 1, P Ahlquist 1
PMCID: PMC240124  PMID: 1404594

Abstract

Brome mosaic virus (BMV) is a positive-strand RNA virus that encodes two RNA replication proteins, the helicaselike 1a and the polymeraselike 2a. 1a and 2a share extensive sequence similarities with proteins encoded by many other members of the alphaviruslike superfamily. While further purifying enzymatically active RNA-dependent RNA polymerase from plants infected by BMV, we observed that 1a, 2a, and the polymerase activity all cofractionated through multiple independent purification steps. Moreover, using immunoprecipitation, we found that BMV 1a and 2a proteins synthesized in rabbit reticulocyte lysates or insect cells can form a specific complex in vitro. Complex formation was more efficient when 1a and 2a were cotranslated than when they were mixed after independent synthesis. In an antibody-independent assay, in vitro-translated 1a protein was also found to bind to 2a protein fixed on a nylon membrane. A three-amino-acid insertion in 1a that blocks BMV RNA replication in vivo also blocked in vitro interaction with 2a, while another two-amino-acid insertion that renders the 1a protein temperature sensitive for RNA replication interacted in vitro with 2a at 24 degrees C but not at 32 degrees C. These results and previous genetic data suggest that the 1a-2a interaction observed in vitro is required for BMV RNA replication and may have direct implications for other members of the alphaviruslike superfamily.

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