The structure of the nucleoprotein of Influenza D shows that all Orthomyxoviridae nucleoproteins have a similar NPCORE, with or without a NPTAIL for nuclear transport

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Donchet, Amélie | Oliva, Justine | Labaronne, Alice | Tengo, Laura | Miloudi, Myriam | Gérard, Francine | Mas, Caroline | Schoehn, Guy | Ruigrok, Rob W H | Ducatez, Mariette | Crépin, Thibaut

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International audience. This paper focuses on the nucleoprotein (NP) of the newly identified member of the Orthomyxoviridae family, Influenza D virus. To date several X-ray structures of NP of Influenza A (A/NP) and B (B/NP) viruses and of infectious salmon anemia (ISA/NP) virus have been solved. Here we purified, characterized and solved the X-ray structure of the tetrameric D/NP at 2.4 Å resolution. The crystal structure of its core is similar to NP of other Influenza viruses. However, unlike A/NP and B/NP which possess a flexible amino-terminal tail containing nuclear localization signals (NLS) for their nuclear import, D/NP possesses a carboxy-terminal tail (D/NPTAIL). We show that D/NPTAIL harbors a bipartite NLS and designed C-terminal truncated mutants to demonstrate the role of D/NPTAIL for nuclear transport.

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