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High resolution cryo-EM structure of the helical RNA-bound Hantaan virus nucleocapsid reveals its assembly mechanisms

Benoît Arragain
Ambroise Desfosses
Irina Gutsche
Guy Schoehn
Hélène Malet

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Negative-strand RNA viruses condense their genome into helical nucleocapsids that constitute essential templates for viral replication and transcription. The intrinsic flexibility of nucleocapsids usually prevents their full-length structural characterization at high resolution. Here we describe purification of full-length recombinant metastable helical nucleocapsid of Hantaan virus ($Hantaviridae$ family, $Bunyavirales$ order) and determine its structure at 3.3 Å resolution by cryo-electron microscopy. The structure reveals the mechanisms of helical multimerization via sub-domain exchanges between protomers and highlights nucleotide positions in a continuous positively charged groove compatible with viral genome binding. It uncovers key sites for future structure-based design of antivirals that are currently lacking to counteract life-threatening hantavirus infections. The structure also suggests a model of nucleoprotein-polymerase interaction that would enable replication and transcription solely upon local disruption of the nucleocapsid.
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hal-01987302 , version 1 (28-05-2020)

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Benoît Arragain, Juan Reguera, Ambroise Desfosses, Irina Gutsche, Guy Schoehn, et al.. High resolution cryo-EM structure of the helical RNA-bound Hantaan virus nucleocapsid reveals its assembly mechanisms. eLife, 2019, 8, ⟨10.7554/eLife.43075⟩. ⟨hal-01987302⟩
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