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In this study, we expressed and biochemically characterized the purified recombinant IBV Nsp13 and found that IBV Nsp13 was able to unwind duplex substrates in a 5\u2032-to-3\u2032 direction by using the energy from the hydrolysis of all nucleotide triphosphate (NTP) and deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP). We also explored the substrate selectivity and influencing factors of the unwinding activity of IBV Nsp13. The nucleic acid continuity of the loading strand was essential for Nsp13 to unwind duplex substrates. In addition, we first demonstrated that IBV helicase Nsp13 also had an annealing activity to promote two single-stranded nucleic acids to form a double-stranded nucleic acid. 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