nsp10 protein conservation among coronavirus groups 1, 2, and
3.
A, sequence alignment of nsp10 proteins derived from
genome sequences of the following: SARS-CoV, SARS coronavirus (group 2b,
NC_004718), HCoV-OC43, human coronavirus OC43 (group 2a, NC_005147),
HCoV-NL63, human coronavirus NL63 (group 1, NC_005831), HCoV-HKU1, human
coronavirus HKU1 (group 2a, NC_006577), HCoV-229E, human coronavirus 229E
(group 1, NC_002645), IBV, infectious bronchitis virus (group 3a,
NC_001451), MHV, mouse hepatitis virus (group 2a, NC_006852), TGEV,
transmissible gastroenteritis virus (group 1, NC_002306), BCoV, bovine
coronavirus (group 2a, NC_003045), ECoV, equine coronavirus (group 2a,
NC_010327), and bat coronavirus, bat-CoV-HKU5–1 (group 2c,
NC_009020). The black triangle points to residue 96,
colored in blue. The sequences were
aligned using the ESPript program (46). Stars indicate residues involved in
coordinating zinc atoms. Underlined sequences in
blue correspond to clusters of mutations obtained by
RY2H. B, nsp10 from SARS-CoV (Protein Data Bank code
2FYG) is
depicted in a surface representation. From the
alignment above, absolutely conserved residues are
shown in red, whereas conserved residues and
non-conserved residues are shown in pink and
white, respectively. The different amino acids
identified as being part of nsp10-nsp16 interaction are named, and the
potential surface of interaction is delineated in
black.