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  • Title: Identification of mutant adeno-associated virus Rep proteins which are dominant-negative for DNA helicase activity.
    Author: Kyöstiö SR, Owens RA.
    Journal: Biochem Biophys Res Commun; 1996 Mar 18; 220(2):294-9. PubMed ID: 8645299.
    Abstract:
    Adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV) Rep proteins have been postulated to play a role in unwinding the 145-bp inverted terminal repeats during AAV DNA replication. Previous studies showed that AAV Rep78 and Rep68 could unwind a DNA partial duplex of 26 bp. In this work it is demonstrated that nuclear extracts of human 293 cells containing wild-type Rep68 can unwind partial DNA duplexes up to 160 bp long. Mutant Rep proteins with either a histidine substituted for lysine 340 or a deletion of methionine 225 had no detectable helicase activity and inhibited the helicase activity of wild-type Rep68 protein. This observation is consistent with the model that the functional form of the Rep proteins is a multimer.
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