Abstract
The crystal structure of Seneca Valley Virus-001 (SVV-001), the representative member of a new genus, Senecavirus, is reported at 2.3Å resolution. SVV-001 is the first naturally occurring nonpathogenic picornavirus shown to mediate selective cytotoxicity towards tumor cells with neuroendocrine cancer features. The nonsegmented (+) ssRNA genome of SVV-001 shares closest sequence similarity with the genomes of the members of Cardiovirus. The overall tertiary structure of VP1-VP4 subunits is conserved with the exception of loops, especially those of VP1 that show large deviations relative to the members of the cardioviruses. The surface loops of VP1 and VP2 are predicted to mediate cell tropism of SVV-001. In addition, the organization of the packaged nucleic acid density indicates that certain regions of VP2 and VP4 interact closely with the packaged nucleic acid.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1555-1561 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Structure |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 8 2008 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are extremely grateful for the assistance and help of the staff at the BIOCARS facility, Vukica Srajer, Reinhard Pahl, and Spencer Anderson in setting up the experiment under the BSL2 conditions. This work was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant R56 AI070771 to V.S.R. Partial salary support to V.S.R. by NIH Research Resource Multiscale Modeling Tools for Structural Biology (MMTSB; RR12255) is acknowledged.
Keywords
- EVO_ECOL
- MICROBIO