NSP5 (rotavirus)

NSP5 (nonstructural protein 5) encoded by genome segment 11 of group A rotaviruses. In virus-infected cells NSP5 accumulates in the viroplasms. NSP5 has been shown to be autophosphorylated.^[1] Interaction of NSP5 with NSP2 was also demonstrated.^[2] In rotavirus-infected cells, the non-structural proteins NSP5 and NSP2 localize in complexes called viroplasms, where replication and assembly occur and they can drive the formation of viroplasm-like structures in the absence of other rotaviral proteins and rotavirus replication.^[3]

References

1. Afrikanova I, Miozzo MC, Giambiagi S, Burrone O (September 1996). "Phosphorylation generates different forms of rotavirus NSP5". The Journal of General Virology. 77 (9): 2059–65. doi:10.1099/0022-1317-77-9-2059. PMID 8811003.
2. Afrikanova I, Fabbretti E, Miozzo MC, Burrone OR (November 1998). "Rotavirus NSP5 phosphorylation is up-regulated by interaction with NSP2". The Journal of General Virology. 79 (11): 2679–86. PMID 9820143.
3. Fabbretti E, Afrikanova I, Vascotto F, Burrone OR (February 1999). "Two non-structural rotavirus proteins, NSP2 and NSP5, form viroplasm-like structures in vivo". The Journal of General Virology. 80 (2): 333–9. PMID 10073692.