FIG 4.

Effects of exogenous phosphatase and RNase treatment on capsid assembly in RRL. The indicated HBc proteins were translated in RRL, and the translation reaction mixtures were resolved by agarose gel electrophoresis (top panels) or SDS-PAGE (bottom panels) without any further treatment (lanes 1, 7, 13, 19, 25, and 31) or were treated with NEB buffer 3 alone overnight at 37°C (buffer) (lanes 2, 8, 14, 20, 26, and 32), with buffer 3 plus CIAP overnight at 37°C (CIAP) (lanes 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, and 33), with buffer 3 plus CIAP overnight at 37°C followed by RNase treatment for one additional hour (CIAP-RNase) (lanes 4, 10, 16, 22, 28, and 34), with RNase for 1 h followed by buffer 3 plus CIAP overnight at 37°C (lanes 5, 11, 17, 23, 29, and 35), or with the mixture of phosphatase inhibitors overnight at 37°C (lanes 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36). All lanes contained 2 μl translation products. ³⁵S-labeled HBc proteins were detected by autoradiography. C, 3A, and 3E/7A, WT or mutant HBc subunits; C149, C-terminally truncated HBc protein (terminated at position 149); C-deP, dephosphorylated HBc subunits; Ca, capsids.