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Nucleolar localisation of the coronavirus nucleoprotein and its role in cell cyle control

ReferenceBBS/B/03416
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Julian Hiscox
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Gavin Brooks
Institution University of Leeds
DepartmentInst of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 188,493
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/04/2004
End date 31/03/2007
Duration36 months

Abstract

The nucleolus is a dynamic sub-nuclear structure involved in cell cycle regulation. This proposal will investigate the relationship between nucleolar shuttling and cell cycle regulation using the avian coronavirus nucleoprotein as a model protein. We have previously shown that nucleoprotein localises to the nucleolus and disrupts the cell cycle. Our hypothesis is that nucleoprotein localises to the nucleolus to alter the cell cycle in order to promote conditions for virus replication. To investigate this, we propose to determine when in the cell cycle nucleoprotein localises to the nucleolus, how nucleolar shuttling affects the cell cycle and determine how the cell cycle affects the virus replication.

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Committee Closed Committee - Biochemistry & Cell Biology (BCB)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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