id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-349417-vn7q8wc4 Ziebuhr, John The Coronavirus Replicase: Insights into a Sophisticated Enzyme Machinery 2006 .txt text/plain 3379 179 45 Activation of the coronavirus replication complex involves extensive proteolytic processing of the replicase polyproteins to produce 16 (in IBV: 15) mature products called nonstructural proteins (nsp) 1 to 16 (reviewed in Refs. The N-terminal regions of the coronavirus polyproteins, which are poorly conserved among the coronavirus groups I, II, and III, are cleaved at two (in IBV) or three sites (in all other coronaviruses) by one (IBV and SARS-CoV) or two zinc-finger-containing papain-like cysteine proteases called PL1 pro and PL2 pro . The observed pattern of conservation in different nidovirus families suggests a functional hierarchy for the newly identified RNA-processing activities, with the manganese ion-dependent uridylate-specific endoribonuclease, NendoU, playing a central role. Identification of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus replicase products and characterization of papain-like protease activity The nsp2 replicase proteins of murine hepatitis virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus are dispensable for viral replication ./cache/cord-349417-vn7q8wc4.txt ./txt/cord-349417-vn7q8wc4.txt