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Wu X, Qi X, Liang M, Li C, Cardona CJ, Li D, Xing Z. Roles of viroplasm-like structures formed by nonstructural protein NSs in infection with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus. FASEB J 2014; 28:2504-16. [PMID: 24599967 DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-243857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) virus is an emerging bunyavirus that causes a hemorrhagic fever with a high mortality rate. The virus is likely tick-borne and replicates primarily in hemopoietic cells, which may lead to disregulation of proinflammatory cytokine induction and loss of leukocytes and platelets. The viral genome contains L, M, and S segments encoding a viral RNA polymerase, glycoproteins G(n) and G(c), nucleoprotein (NP), and a nonstructural S segment (NSs) protein. NSs protein is involved in the regulation of host innate immune responses and suppression of IFNβ-promoter activities. In this article, we demonstrate that NSs protein can form viroplasm-like structures (VLSs) in infected and transfected cells. NSs protein molecules interact with one another, interact with NP, and were associated with viral RNA in infected cells, suggesting that NSs protein may be involved in viral replication. Furthermore, we observed that NSs-formed VLS colocalized with lipid droplets and that inhibitors of fatty acid biosynthesis decreased VLS formation or viral replication in transfected and infected cells. Finally, we have demonstrated that viral dsRNAs were also localized in VLS in infected cells, suggesting that NSs-formed VLS may be implicated in the replication of SFTS bunyavirus. These findings identify a novel function of nonstructural NSs in SFTSV-infected cells where it is a scaffolding component in a VLS functioning as a virus replication factory. This function is in addition to the role of NSs protein in modulating host responses that will broaden our understanding of viral pathogenesis of phleboviruses.
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- Xiaodong Wu
- Medical School, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanjing, China
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- China Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China; and
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- China Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China; and
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- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- China Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing, China; and
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- Medical School, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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A novel form of rotavirus NSP2 and phosphorylation-dependent NSP2-NSP5 interactions are associated with viroplasm assembly. J Virol 2013; 88:786-98. [PMID: 24198401 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.03022-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Rotavirus (RV) replication occurs in cytoplasmic inclusions called viroplasms whose formation requires the interactions of RV proteins NSP2 and NSP5; however, the specific role(s) of NSP2 in viroplasm assembly remains largely unknown. To study viroplasm formation in the context of infection, we characterized two new monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) specific for NSP2. These MAbs show high-affinity binding to NSP2 and differentially recognize distinct pools of NSP2 in RV-infected cells; a previously unrecognized cytoplasmically dispersed NSP2 (dNSP2) is detected by an N-terminal binding MAb, and previously known viroplasmic NSP2 (vNSP2) is detected by a C-terminal binding MAb. Kinetic experiments in RV-infected cells demonstrate that dNSP2 is associated with NSP5 in nascent viroplasms that lack vNSP2. As viroplasms mature, dNSP2 remains in viroplasms, and the amount of diffuse cytoplasmic dNSP2 increases. vNSP2 is detected in increasing amounts later in infection in the maturing viroplasm, suggesting a conversion of dNSP2 into vNSP2. Immunoprecipitation experiments and reciprocal Western blot analysis confirm that there are two different forms of NSP2 that assemble in complexes with NSP5, VP1, VP2, and tubulin. dNSP2 associates with hypophosphorylated NSP5 and acetylated tubulin, which is correlated with stabilized microtubules, while vNSP2 associates with hyperphosphorylated NSP5. Mass spectroscopy analysis of NSP2 complexes immunoprecipitated from RV-infected cell lysates show both forms of NSP2 are phosphorylated, with a greater proportion of vNSP2 being phosphorylated compared to dNSP2. Together, these data suggest that dNSP2 interacts with viral proteins, including hypophosphorylated NSP5, to initiate viroplasm formation, while viroplasm maturation includes phosphorylation of NSP5 and vNSP2.
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Miyazaki N, Nakagawa A, Iwasaki K. Life cycle of phytoreoviruses visualized by electron microscopy and tomography. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:306. [PMID: 24137159 PMCID: PMC3797527 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Accepted: 09/24/2013] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Rice dwarf virus and Rice gall dwarf virus, members of the genus Phytoreovirus in the family Reoviridae,are known as agents of rice disease, because their spread results in substantial economic damage in many Asian countries. These viruses are transmitted via insect vectors, and they multiply both in the plants and in the insect vectors. Structural information about the viruses and their interactions with cellular components in the life cycle are essential for understanding viral infection and replication mechanisms. The life cycle of the viruses involves various cellular events such as cell entry, synthesis of viral genome and proteins, assembly of viral components, viral egress from infected cells, and intra- and intercellular transports. This review focuses on the major events underlying the life cycle of phytoreoviruses, which has been visualized by various electron microscopy (EM) imaging techniques, including cryo-electron microscopy and tomography, and demonstrates the advantage of the advanced EM imaging techniques to investigate the viral infection and replication mechanisms.
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- Naoyuki Miyazaki
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University Osaka, Japan ; National Institute for Physiological Sciences Okazaki, Japan
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Desselberger U, Richards J, Tchertanov L, Lepault J, Lever A, Burrone O, Cohen J. Further characterisation of rotavirus cores: Ss(+)RNAs can be packaged in vitro but packaging lacks sequence specificity. Virus Res 2013; 178:252-63. [PMID: 24091366 PMCID: PMC3854842 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.09.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2013] [Revised: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 09/23/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Rotavirus (RV) cores were released from double-layered particles (DLPs) by high concentrations of CaCl2, purified and 'opened' by treatment with EDTA or EGTA. Under appropriate in vitro conditions DLPs have been shown to have transcriptase and 'open cores' replicase activity. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that transcriptase activity and infectivity of native cores can be restored by transcapsidation with VP6, VP7 and VP4. The missing link for particle reconstitution in vitro has been the manipulation of 'open cores' to become functionally active cores again. The experiments described here were undertaken with the aim of exploring packaging of RV RNAs into opened cores in vitro. Rotavirus cores were opened by approximately 200μM EGTA, leading to the release of genomic dsRNA. Conversely, RV cores were found to be stable in the presence of minimum concentrations of Ca(2+), Mg(2+), spermidine(3+) and cobalthexamine(3+) of between 40 and 300 μM. Aggregates of purified cores were resolved in the presence of 0.3mM deoxycholate (minimum concentration). Core shells opened with EGTA were reconstituted by the addition of di- or trivalent cations within 2 min of the opening procedure. Addition of purified, baculovirus recombinant-expressed VP6 to native and reconstituted cores led to the formation of DLPs or DLP-like particles, which upon transfection into MA104 cells were infectious. The rescued infectivity likely originated in part from unopened and in part from reconstituted cores. Radiolabelled RV (+) ssRNAs could be packaged into reconstituted cores and DLPs, as indicated by resistance to RNase I digestion. The packaging reaction was, however, not RV RNA sequence-specific, since unrelated ssRNAs, such as those transcribed from HIV-2 cDNAs, were also packaged. The kinetics of packaging of homologous and heterologous RNAs were similar, as evidenced by competitive packaging assays. None of the packaged in vitro engineered RNA segments has so far been rescued into infectious virus.
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- Ulrich Desselberger
- Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, UMR 2472 du CNRS, 1 avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cédex, France; Molecular Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering, Trieste, Italy; Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK.
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La Frazia S, Ciucci A, Arnoldi F, Coira M, Gianferretti P, Angelini M, Belardo G, Burrone OR, Rossignol JF, Santoro MG. Thiazolides, a new class of antiviral agents effective against rotavirus infection, target viral morphogenesis, inhibiting viroplasm formation. J Virol 2013; 87:11096-106. [PMID: 23926336 PMCID: PMC3807293 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01213-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Accepted: 07/29/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Rotaviruses, nonenveloped viruses presenting a distinctive triple-layered particle architecture enclosing a segmented double-stranded RNA genome, exhibit a unique morphogenetic pathway requiring the formation of cytoplasmic inclusion bodies called viroplasms in a process involving the nonstructural viral proteins NSP5 and NSP2. In these structures the concerted packaging and replication of the 11 positive-polarity single-stranded RNAs take place to generate the viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genomic segments. Rotavirus infection is a leading cause of gastroenteritis-associated severe morbidity and mortality in young children, but no effective antiviral therapy exists. Herein we investigate the antirotaviral activity of the thiazolide anti-infective nitazoxanide and reveal a novel mechanism by which thiazolides act against rotaviruses. Nitazoxanide and its active circulating metabolite, tizoxanide, inhibit simian A/SA11-G3P[2] and human Wa-G1P[8] rotavirus replication in different types of cells with 50% effective concentrations (EC50s) ranging from 0.3 to 2 μg/ml and 50% cytotoxic concentrations (CC50s) higher than 50 μg/ml. Thiazolides do not affect virus infectivity, binding, or entry into target cells and do not cause a general inhibition of viral protein expression, whereas they reduce the size and alter the architecture of viroplasms, decreasing rotavirus dsRNA formation. As revealed by protein/protein interaction analysis, confocal immunofluorescence microscopy, and viroplasm-like structure formation analysis, thiazolides act by hindering the interaction between the nonstructural proteins NSP5 and NSP2. Altogether the results indicate that thiazolides inhibit rotavirus replication by interfering with viral morphogenesis and may represent a novel class of antiviral drugs effective against rotavirus gastroenteritis.
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- Simone La Frazia
- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medicine, Surgery and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Richards JE, Desselberger U, Lever AM. Experimental pathways towards developing a rotavirus reverse genetics system: synthetic full length rotavirus ssRNAs are neither infectious nor translated in permissive cells. PLoS One 2013; 8:e74328. [PMID: 24019962 PMCID: PMC3760874 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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At present the ability to create rationally engineered mutant rotaviruses is limited because of the lack of a tractable helper virus-free reverse genetics system. Using the cell culture adapted bovine RV RF strain (G6P6 [1]), we have attempted to recover infectious RV by co-transfecting in vitro transcribed ssRNAs which are identical in sequence to the positive sense strand of each of the 11 dsRNA genomic segments of the RF strain. The RNAs were produced either from cDNAs cloned by a target sequence-independent procedure, or from purified double layered RV particles (DLPs). We have validated their translational function by in vitro synthesis of (35)S-labelled proteins in rabbit reticulocyte lysates; all 11 proteins encoded by the RV genome were expressed. Transfection experiments with DLP- or cDNA-derived ssRNAs suggested that the RNAs do not act independently as mRNAs for protein synthesis, once delivered into various mammalian cell lines, and exhibit cytotoxicity. Transfected RNAs were not infectious since a viral cytopathic effect was not observed after infection of MA104 cells with lysates from transfected cells. By contrast, an engineered mRNA encoding eGFP was expressed when transfected under identical conditions into the same cell lines. Co-expression of plasmids encoding NSP2 and NSP5 using a fowlpox T7 polymerase recombinant virus revealed viroplasm-like structure formation, but this did not enable the translation of transfected RV ssRNAs. Attempts to recover RV from ssRNAs transcribed intracellularly from transfected cDNAs were also unsuccessful and suggested that these RNAs were also not translated, in contrast to successful translation from a transfected cDNA encoding an eGFP mRNA.
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- James E. Richards
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (UD); (AML)
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (UD); (AML)
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Molecular characterization of the porcine group A rotavirus NSP2 and NSP5/6 genes from São Paulo State, Brazil, in 2011/12. ScientificWorldJournal 2013; 2013:241686. [PMID: 23970830 PMCID: PMC3730213 DOI: 10.1155/2013/241686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2013] [Accepted: 06/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rotaviruses are responsible for the acute diarrhea in various mammalian and avian species. The nonstructural proteins NSP2 and NSP5 are involved in the rotavirus replication and the formation of viroplasm, cytoplasmic inclusion bodies within which new viral particles morphogenesis and viral RNA replication occur. There are few studies on the genetic diversity of those proteins; thus this study aims at characterizing the diversity of rotavirus based on NSP2 and NSP5 genes in rotaviruses circulating in Brazilian pig farms. For this purpose, 63 fecal samples from pig farms located in six different cities in the São Paulo State, Brazil, were screened by nested RT-PCR. Seven strains had the partial nucleotide sequencing for NSP2, whereas in six, the total sequencing for NSP5. All were characterized as genotype H1 and N1. The nucleotide identity of NSP2 genes ranged from 100% to 86.4% and the amino acid identity from 100% to 91.5%. For NSP5, the nucleotide identity was from 100% to 95.1% and the amino acid identity from 100% to 97.4%. It is concluded that the genotypes of the strains circulating in the region of study are in agreement with those reported in the literature for swine and that there is the possibility of interaction between human and animal rotaviruses.
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Wen D, Yan L, Shao L, Guo H, Li X, Fang Q. Aquareovirus protein VP6 colocalizes with NS80 protein in infected and transfected cells. Virol J 2013; 10:133. [PMID: 23622425 PMCID: PMC3660289 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-10-133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2013] [Accepted: 04/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Background Aquareovirus particle is comprised of central core and outer capsid, which is built by seven structural proteins (VP1-VP7). The protein VP6 has been identified to be a clamp protein of stabilizing inner core frame VP3, and bridging outer shell protein VP5. However, the biological properties of VP6 in viral life cycle remain unknown. Results The recombinant VP6 (rVP6) of aquareovirus was expressed in E. coli, and the polyclonal antibody against VP6 was generated by using purified rVP6 in this study. Following the preparation of VP6 antibody, the VP6 component in aquareovirus infected cells and purified viral particles was detected by Immunoblotting (IB) assay. Furthermore, using Immunofluorescence (IF) microscopy, singly transfected VP6 protein was observed to exhibit a diffuse distribution mainly in the cytoplasm, while it appeared inclusion phenotype in infected cells. Meanwhile, inclusion structures were also identified when VP6 was coexpressed with nonstructural protein NS80 in cotransfected cells. Conclusions VP6 can be recruited by NS80 to its inclusions in both infected and transfected cells. The colocalization of VP6 and NS80 is corresponding to their homologous proteins σ2 and μNS in MRV. Our results suggest that VP6 may play a significant role in viral replication and particle assembly.
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- Dawei Wen
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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Gaunt ER, Zhang Q, Cheung W, Wakelam MJO, Lever AML, Desselberger U. Lipidome analysis of rotavirus-infected cells confirms the close interaction of lipid droplets with viroplasms. J Gen Virol 2013; 94:1576-1586. [PMID: 23515026 PMCID: PMC3709634 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.049635-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Rotaviruses (RVs) cause acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children, and are globally distributed. Within the infected host cell, RVs establish replication complexes in viroplasms (‘viral factories’) to which lipid droplet organelles are recruited. To further understand this recently discovered phenomenon, the lipidomes of RV-infected and uninfected MA104 cells were investigated. Cell lysates were subjected to equilibrium ultracentrifugation through iodixanol gradients. Fourteen different classes of lipids were differentiated by mass spectrometry. The concentrations of virtually all lipids were elevated in RV-infected cells. Fractions of low density (1.11–1.15 g ml−1), in which peaks of the RV dsRNA genome and lipid droplet- and viroplasm-associated proteins were observed, contained increased amounts of lipids typically found concentrated in the cellular organelle lipid droplets, confirming the close interaction of lipid droplets with viroplasms. A decrease in the ratio of the amounts of surface to internal components of lipid droplets upon RV infection suggested that the lipid droplet–viroplasm complexes became enlarged.
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- Eleanor R Gaunt
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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Gaunt ER, Cheung W, Richards JE, Lever A, Desselberger U. Inhibition of rotavirus replication by downregulation of fatty acid synthesis. J Gen Virol 2013; 94:1310-1317. [PMID: 23486665 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.050146-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Recently the recruitment of lipid droplets (LDs) to sites of rotavirus (RV) replication was reported. LDs are polymorphic organelles that store triacylglycerols, cholesterol and cholesterol esters. The neutral fats are derived from palmitoyl-CoA, synthesized via the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway. RV-infected cells were treated with chemical inhibitors of the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway, and the effects on viral replication kinetics were assessed. Treatment with compound C75, an inhibitor of the fatty acid synthase enzyme complex (FASN), reduced RV infectivity 3.2-fold (P = 0.07) and modestly reduced viral RNA synthesis (1.2-fold). Acting earlier in the fatty acid synthesis pathway, TOFA [5-(Tetradecyloxy)-2-furoic acid] inhibits the enzyme acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 (ACC1). TOFA reduced the infectivity of progeny RV 31-fold and viral RNA production 6-fold. The effect of TOFA on RV infectivity and RNA replication was dose-dependent, and infectivity was reduced by administering TOFA up to 4 h post-infection. Co-treatment of RV-infected cells with C75 and TOFA synergistically reduced viral infectivity. Knockdown by siRNA of FASN and ACC1 produced findings similar to those observed by inhibiting these proteins with the chemical compounds. Inhibition of fatty acid synthesis using a range of approaches uniformly had a more marked impact on viral infectivity than on viral RNA yield, inferring a role for LDs in virus assembly and/or egress. Specific inhibitors of fatty acid metabolism may help pinpoint the critical structural and biochemical features of LDs that are essential for RV replication, and facilitate the development of antiviral therapies.
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- Eleanor R Gaunt
- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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- Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK
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Shao L, Guo H, Yan LM, Liu H, Fang Q. Aquareovirus NS80 recruits viral proteins to its inclusions, and its C-terminal domain is the primary driving force for viral inclusion formation. PLoS One 2013; 8:e55334. [PMID: 23424630 PMCID: PMC3570539 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Accepted: 12/20/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies formed in reovirus-infected cells are the sites of viral replication and assembly. Previous studies have suggested that the NS80 protein of aquareovirus may be involved in the formation of viral inclusion bodies. However, it remains unknown whether other viral proteins are involved in the process, and what regions of NS80 may act coordinately in mediating inclusion formation. Here, we observed that globular cytoplasmic inclusions were formed in virus-infected cells and viral proteins NS80 and NS38 colocalized in the inclusions. During transfection, singly expressed NS80 could form cytoplasmic inclusions and recruit NS38 and GFP-tagged VP4 to these structures. Further treatment of cells with nocodazole, a microtubule inhibitor, did not disrupt the inclusion, suggesting that inclusion formation does not rely on microtubule network. Besides, we identified that the region 530–742 of NS80 was likely the minimal region required for inclusion formation, and the C-tail, coiled-coil region as well as the conserved linker region were essential for inclusion phenotype. Moreover, with series deletions from the N-terminus, a stepwise conversion occurred from large condensed cytoplasmic to small nuclear inclusions, then to a diffused intracellular distribution. Notablely, we found that the nuclear inclusions, formed by NS80 truncations (471 to 513–742), colocalized with cellular protein β-catenin. These data indicated that NS80 could be a major mediator in recruiting NS38 and VP4 into inclusion structures, and the C-terminus of NS80 is responsible for inclusion formation.
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- Ling Shao
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Suzuki T, Soma J, Miyazaki A, Tsunemitsu H. Phylogenetic analysis of nonstructural protein 5 (NSP5) gene sequences in porcine rotavirus B strains. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2012; 12:1661-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2012] [Revised: 06/22/2012] [Accepted: 06/28/2012] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Eichwald C, Arnoldi F, Laimbacher AS, Schraner EM, Fraefel C, Wild P, Burrone OR, Ackermann M. Rotavirus viroplasm fusion and perinuclear localization are dynamic processes requiring stabilized microtubules. PLoS One 2012; 7:e47947. [PMID: 23110139 PMCID: PMC3479128 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2012] [Accepted: 09/17/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Rotavirus viroplasms are cytosolic, electron-dense inclusions corresponding to the viral machinery of replication responsible for viral template transcription, dsRNA genome segments replication and assembly of new viral cores. We have previously observed that, over time, those viroplasms increase in size and decrease in number. Therefore, we hypothesized that this process was dependent on the cellular microtubular network and its associated dynamic components. Here, we present evidence demonstrating that viroplasms are dynamic structures, which, in the course of an ongoing infection, move towards the perinuclear region of the cell, where they fuse among each other, thereby gaining considerably in size and, simultaneouly, explaining the decrease in numbers. On the viral side, this process seems to depend on VP2 for movement and on NSP2 for fusion. On the cellular side, both the temporal transition and the maintenance of the viroplasms are dependent on the microtubular network, its stabilization by acetylation, and, surprisingly, on a kinesin motor of the kinesin-5 family, Eg5. Thus, we provide for the first time deeper insights into the dynamics of rotavirus replication, which can explain the behavior of viroplasms in the infected cell.
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De Lorenzo G, Eichwald C, Schraner EM, Nicolin V, Bortul R, Mano M, Burrone OR, Arnoldi F. Production of in vivo-biotinylated rotavirus particles. J Gen Virol 2012; 93:1474-1482. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.040089-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Although inserting exogenous viral genome segments into rotavirus particles remains a hard challenge, this study describes the in vivo incorporation of a recombinant viral capsid protein (VP6) into newly assembled rotavirus particles. In vivo biotinylation technology was exploited to biotinylate a recombinant VP6 protein fused to a 15 aa biotin-acceptor peptide (BAP) by the bacterial biotin ligase BirA contextually co-expressed in mammalian cells. To avoid toxicity of VP6 overexpression, a stable HEK293 cell line was constructed with tetracycline-inducible expression of VP6–BAP and constitutive expression of BirA. Following tetracycline induction and rotavirus infection, VP6–BAP was biotinylated, recruited into viroplasms and incorporated into newly assembled virions. The biotin molecules in the capsid allowed the use of streptavidin-coated magnetic beads as a purification technique instead of CsCl gradient ultracentrifugation. Following transfection, double-layered particles attached to beads were able to induce viroplasm formation and to generate infective viral progeny.
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- G. De Lorenzo
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- Institute of Virology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Veterinary Anatomy, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
- Institute of Virology, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Dipartimento Universitario Clinico di Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e della Salute, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento Universitario Clinico di Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e della Salute, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento Universitario Clinico di Scienze Mediche, Chirurgiche e della Salute, Strada di Fiume 447, 34149 Trieste, Italy
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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HSV-1 amplicon vectors launch the production of heterologous rotavirus-like particles and induce rotavirus-specific immune responses in mice. Mol Ther 2012; 20:1810-20. [PMID: 22713696 DOI: 10.1038/mt.2012.108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Virus-like particles (VLPs) are promising vaccine candidates because they represent viral antigens in the authentic conformation of the virion and are therefore readily recognized by the immune system. As VLPs do not contain genetic material they are safer than attenuated virus vaccines. In this study, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) amplicon vectors were constructed to coexpress the rotavirus (RV) structural genes VP2, VP6, and VP7 and were used as platforms to launch the production of RV-like particles (RVLPs) in vector-infected mammalian cells. Despite the observed splicing of VP6 RNA, full-length VP6 protein and RVLPs were efficiently produced. Intramuscular injection of mice with the amplicon vectors as a two-dose regimen without adjuvants resulted in RV-specific humoral immune responses and, most importantly, immunized mice were partially protected at the mucosal level from challenge with live wild-type (wt) RV. This work provides proof of principle for the application of HSV-1 amplicon vectors that mediate the efficient production of heterologous VLPs as genetic vaccines.
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Selection and evolutionary analysis in the nonstructural protein NSP2 of rotavirus A. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2012; 12:1355-61. [PMID: 22610044 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2012] [Revised: 05/07/2012] [Accepted: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Rotavirus A is the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide. The nonstructural protein 2 (NSP2) plays essential roles in the replication cycle of rotavirus and may play a role in protective immunity against rotavirus disease. Using a Bayesian approach, we measured the mutation rate of genotype N1 NSP2 gene sequences. The N1 genotype is the main NSP2 genotype associated with rotavirus strains causing severe disease, and was found to have a high mutation rate (8.7 × 10(-4) substitutions/site/year) in comparison to the rotavirus VP4 gene and rates of mutation in other RNA viruses. NSP2 has traditionally been considered as a conserved rotavirus protein and selection analysis indicated that the NSP2 protein was under strong negative selection, suggesting that most nucleotide substitutions were synonymous. This conservation is likely a result of functional constraints of NSP2 in the rotavirus replication cycle. Four sites of positive selection were identified; two of these (positions 249 and 255) were located in a previously characterised antibody binding epitope. The remaining sites were not located in known functional regions, and the reason for variation at these sites remains to be elucidated.
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Crystallographic analysis reveals octamerization of viroplasm matrix protein P9-1 of Rice black streaked dwarf virus. J Virol 2011; 86:746-56. [PMID: 22072761 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00826-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The P9-1 protein of Rice black streaked dwarf virus accumulates in viroplasm inclusions, which are structures that appear to play an important role in viral morphogenesis and are commonly found in viruses in the family Reoviridae. Crystallographic analysis of P9-1 revealed structural features that allow the protein to form dimers via hydrophobic interactions. Each dimer has carboxy-terminal regions, resembling arms, that extend to neighboring dimers, thereby uniting sets of four dimers via lateral hydrophobic interactions, to yield cylindrical octamers. The importance of these regions for the formation of viroplasm-like inclusions was confirmed by the absence of such inclusions when P9-1 was expressed without its carboxy-terminal arm. The octamers are vertically elongated cylinders resembling the structures formed by NSP2 of rotavirus, even though there are no significant similarities between the respective primary and secondary structures of the two proteins. Our results suggest that an octameric structure with an internal pore might be important for the functioning of the respective proteins in the events that occur in the viroplasm, which might include viral morphogenesis.
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Akita F, Miyazaki N, Hibino H, Shimizu T, Higashiura A, Uehara-Ichiki T, Sasaya T, Tsukihara T, Nakagawa A, Iwasaki K, Omura T. Viroplasm matrix protein Pns9 from rice gall dwarf virus forms an octameric cylindrical structure. J Gen Virol 2011; 92:2214-2221. [DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.032524-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The non-structural Pns9 protein of rice gall dwarf virus (RGDV) accumulates in viroplasm inclusions, which are structures that appear to play an important role in viral morphogenesis and are commonly found in host cells infected by viruses in the family Reoviridae. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy of RGDV-infected vector cells in monolayers, using antibodies against Pns9 of RGDV and expression of Pns9 in Spodoptera frugiperda cells, demonstrated that Pns9 is the minimal viral factor necessary for formation of viroplasm inclusion during infection by RGDV. When Pns9 in solution was observed under a conventional electron microscope, it appeared as ring-like aggregates of approximately 100 Å in diameter. Cryo-electron microscopic analysis of these aggregates revealed cylinders of octameric Pns9, whose dimensions were similar to those observed under the conventional electron microscope. Octamerization of Pns9 in solution was confirmed by the results of size-exclusion chromatography. Among proteins of viruses that belong to the family Reoviridae whose three-dimensional structures are available, a matrix protein of the viroplasm of rotavirus, NSP2, forms similar octamers, an observation that suggests similar roles for Pns9 and NSP2 in morphogenesis in animal-infecting and in plant-infecting reoviruses.
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- Fusamichi Akita
- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Department of Life Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Koto, Kamighori, Akoh, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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Martin D, Ouldali M, Ménétrey J, Poncet D. Structural organisation of the rotavirus nonstructural protein NSP5. J Mol Biol 2011; 413:209-21. [PMID: 21864538 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Revised: 08/01/2011] [Accepted: 08/04/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Rotavirus is one of the leading agents of gastroenteritis worldwide. During infection, viral factories (viroplasms) are formed. The rotavirus nonstructural proteins NSP5 and NSP2 are the major building blocks of viroplasms; however, NSP5 function and organisation remain elusive. In this report, we present a structural characterisation of NSP5. Multi-angle laser light scattering, sedimentation velocity and equilibrium sedimentation experiments demonstrate that recombinant full-length NSP5 forms a decamer in solution. Far-Western, pull-down and multi-angle laser light scattering experiments show that NSP5 has two oligomerisation regions. The first region, residues 103-146, is involved in NSP5 dimerisation, whereas the second region, residues 189-198, is responsible for NSP5 decamerisation. Circular dichroism analyses of full-length and truncated forms of NSP5 reveal that the decamerisation region is helical, whereas the dimerisation region involves β-sheets. From these circular dichroism experiments, we also show that the NSP5 protomers contain two α-helices, a disordered N-terminal half and a C-terminal half that is primarily composed of β-sheet folds. This extensive structural characterisation of NSP5 led us to propose a model for its quaternary organisation. Finally, co-expression of NSP5 fragments and NSP2 in uninfected cells shows that the NSP5 decamerisation region is required for viroplasm-like structure formation. However, in vitro, the NSP5 decamerisation region partially inhibits the NSP2-NSP5 interaction. Our NSP5 model suggests that steric hindrance prevents NSP2 from binding to all NSP5 protomers. Some protomers may thus be free to interact with other NSP5 binding partners, such as viral RNAs and the viral polymerase VP1, to perform functions other than viroplasm organisation.
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- Davy Martin
- Virologie Moléculaire et Structurale, UPR-CNRS 3296, USC INRA, Centre de Recherche de Gif, CNRS, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France.
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Donker NC, Foley M, Tamvakis DC, Bishop R, Kirkwood CD. Identification of an antibody-binding epitope on the rotavirus A non-structural protein NSP2 using phage display analysis. J Gen Virol 2011; 92:2374-2382. [PMID: 21697352 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.032599-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The non-structural protein 2 (NSP2) of rotavirus has important roles in rotavirus replication associated with RNA binding, hydrolysis of NTPs and RNA, and helix destabilizing properties. A cell-culture assay using an NSP2-specific mAb and polyclonal antiserum to block virus replication showed a 73 and 96 % reduction in the amount of virus produced during replication, respectively. Phage display technology was used to identify the antibody-binding region on the NSP2 protein with the motif (244)T-(Y/F)-Ø-Ø-Ø-X-K-Ø-G(252), where Ø is a hydrophilic residue and X is any amino acid. This region was mapped to the three-dimensional NSP2 crystal structure to visualize the epitope. Analysis revealed identity to a region on NSP2 that mapped to a site exposed on the surface of the protein, which could possibly interfere with a functionally important region of the protein. Antibody binding to this region could disrupt the essential roles of NSP2, such as the formation of viroplasms with NSP5 or the interaction with viral RNA, thereby indicating a possible mechanism for the observed inhibition of virus replication. Genetic analysis of the putative binding region of NSP2 revealed a high level of conservation, suggesting that the region is under strict control.
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- Nicole C Donker
- Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
- Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
- Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Donker NC, Boniface K, Kirkwood CD. Phylogenetic analysis of rotavirus A NSP2 gene sequences and evidence of intragenic recombination. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2011; 11:1602-7. [PMID: 21689784 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.05.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2010] [Revised: 05/19/2011] [Accepted: 05/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The rotavirus non-structural protein NSP2 is one of the earliest and most abundant viral proteins produced during infection. This protein has multiple essential roles in the replication cycle involving RNA binding, viroplasm formation, helicase and can hydrolyse the γ-phosphate of RNA and NTPs acting as an RTPase and NTPase. In studying sequences from rotavirus strains isolated in Australia between 1984 and 2009, the NSP2 gene was seen to be highly conserved and clustered with defined NSP2 genotypes N1 and N2 according to the full genome based rotavirus classification system. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that NSP2 gene sequences isolated from Australian rotavirus strains formed four distinct lineages. Temporal variation was observed in several clusters during the 26 year period, with lineage D identified throughout the entire study period and lineage A only detected since 1999. Phylogenetic analysis and dendrograms identified NSP2 genes that exhibited reassortment between different virus VP7 genotypes, as well as a sequence from a human strain that grouped closely with the NSP2 genes of bovine rotavirus strains. This study also identified a sequence that fell between lineages and exhibited evidence of recombination, the first time that intergenic recombination has been detected in a NSP2 gene sequence. This study increases the understanding of the evolution mechanisms of NSP2 in view of improved vaccine design.
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- Nicole C Donker
- Enteric Virus Group, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Childrens Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.
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Rotavirus replication requires a functional proteasome for effective assembly of viroplasms. J Virol 2011; 85:2781-92. [PMID: 21228236 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01631-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The ubiquitin-proteasome system has been shown to play an important role in the replication cycle of different viruses. In this study, we describe a strong impairment of rotavirus replication upon inhibition of proteasomal activity. The effect was evidenced at the level of accumulation of viral proteins, viral RNA, and yield of infective particles. Kinetic studies revealed that the early steps of the replicative cycle following attachment, entry, and uncoating were clearly more sensitive to proteasome inhibition. We ruled out a direct inhibition of the viral polymerase activities and stability of viral proteins and found that the crucial step that was impaired by blocking proteasome activity was the assembly of new viroplasms. This was demonstrated by using chemical inhibitors of proteasome and by gene silencing using small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) specific for different proteasomal subunits and for the ubiquitin precursor RPS27A. In addition, we show that the effect of proteasome inhibition on virus infection is not due to increased levels of beta interferon (IFN-β).
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Characterization of viroplasm formation during the early stages of rotavirus infection. Virol J 2010; 7:350. [PMID: 21114853 PMCID: PMC3009706 DOI: 10.1186/1743-422x-7-350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2010] [Accepted: 11/29/2010] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background During rotavirus replication cycle, electron-dense cytoplasmic inclusions named viroplasms are formed, and two non-structural proteins, NSP2 and NSP5, have been shown to localize in these membrane-free structures. In these inclusions, replication of dsRNA and packaging of pre-virion particles occur. Despite the importance of viroplasms in the replication cycle of rotavirus, the information regarding their formation, and the possible sites of their nucleation during the early stages of infection is scarce. Here, we analyzed the formation of viroplasms after infection of MA104 cells with the rotavirus strain RRV, using different multiplicities of infection (MOI), and different times post-infection. The possibility that viroplasms formation is nucleated by the entering viral particles was investigated using fluorescently labeled purified rotavirus particles. Results The immunofluorescent detection of viroplasms, using antibodies specific to NSP2 showed that both the number and size of viroplasms increased during infection, and depend on the MOI used. Small-size viroplasms predominated independently of the MOI or time post-infection, although at MOI's of 2.5 and 10 the proportion of larger viroplasms increased. Purified RRV particles were successfully labeled with the Cy5 mono reactive dye, without decrease in virus infectivity, and the labeled viruses were clearly observed by confocal microscope. PAGE gel analysis showed that most viral proteins were labeled; including the intermediate capsid protein VP6. Only 2 out of 117 Cy5-labeled virus particles colocalized with newly formed viroplasms at 4 hours post-infection. Conclusions The results presented in this work suggest that during rotavirus infection the number and size of viroplasm increases in an MOI-dependent manner. The Cy5 in vitro labeled virus particles were not found to colocalize with newly formed viroplasms, suggesting that they are not involved in viroplasm nucleation.
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Fan C, Shao L, Fang Q. Characterization of the nonstructural protein NS80 of grass carp reovirus. Arch Virol 2010; 155:1755-63. [PMID: 20640908 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-010-0753-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2010] [Accepted: 07/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nonstructural proteins of members of the family Reoviridae are believed to play significant roles in the virus replication cycle. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that the nonstructural protein NS80 of grass carp reovirus, encoded by a gene of Segment 4 (S4), is a primary determinant that is related to the formation of viroplasmic inclusion bodies (VIB), where viral replication and assembly are thought to occur. To understand the role of the NS80 protein in viral replication, an initial investigation of NS80 gene expression in both infected and transfected cells was conducted. Transmission electron microscopy results indicate that replication and assembly of GCRV occur within VIB-like structures in the perinuclear region of the cell cytoplasm. Furthermore, expression of the S4 gene in infected cells was detected with an NS80-specific antibody by western blot and immunofluorescence. Moreover, globular VIB-like structures were observed when expressing GFP-derived full-length NS80 (pEGFP-C1/NS80) and recombinants containing the C-terminal conserved region (pEGFP-C1/NS80₃₃₅₋₇₂₄) in transfected Vero. No such structures were detected in cells transfected with an N-terminal recombinant (pEGFP-C1/NS80₁₋₃₃₄), suggesting that the NS80 C-terminal conserved region may be involved in the formation of inclusion structures. These data provide a foundation for further functional studies of NS80 related to viral inclusion formation in viral replication.
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- Chao Fan
- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Rotaviruses associate with cellular lipid droplet components to replicate in viroplasms, and compounds disrupting or blocking lipid droplets inhibit viroplasm formation and viral replication. J Virol 2010; 84:6782-98. [PMID: 20335253 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01757-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Rotaviruses are a major cause of acute gastroenteritis in children worldwide. Early stages of rotavirus assembly in infected cells occur in viroplasms. Confocal microscopy demonstrated that viroplasms associate with lipids and proteins (perilipin A, ADRP) characteristic of lipid droplets (LDs). LD-associated proteins were also found to colocalize with viroplasms containing a rotaviral NSP5-enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) fusion protein and with viroplasm-like structures in uninfected cells coexpressing viral NSP2 and NSP5. Close spatial proximity of NSP5-EGFP and cellular perilipin A was confirmed by fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Viroplasms appear to recruit LD components during the time course of rotavirus infection. NSP5-specific siRNA blocked association of perilipin A with NSP5 in viroplasms. Viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), NSP5, and perilipin A cosedimented in low-density gradient fractions of rotavirus-infected cell extracts. Chemical compounds interfering with LD formation (isoproterenol plus isobutylmethylxanthine; triacsin C) decreased the number of viroplasms and inhibited dsRNA replication and the production of infectious progeny virus; this effect correlated with significant protection of cells from virus-associated cytopathicity. Rotaviruses represent a genus of another virus family utilizing LD components for replication, pointing at novel therapeutic targets for these pathogens.
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Contin R, Arnoldi F, Campagna M, Burrone OR. Rotavirus NSP5 orchestrates recruitment of viroplasmic proteins. J Gen Virol 2010; 91:1782-93. [PMID: 20200190 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.019133-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Rotavirus genome replication and the first steps of virus morphogenesis take place in cytoplasmic viral factories, called viroplasms, containing four structural (VP1, VP2, VP3 and VP6) and two non-structural (NSP2 and NSP5) proteins. NSP2 and NSP5 have been shown to be essential for viroplasm formation and, when co-expressed in uninfected cells, to form viroplasm-like structures (VLS). In the present work, VLS formation was shown upon co-expression of NSP5 with the core protein VP2 despite the absence of NSP2, indicating a central role for NSP5 in VLS assembly. Since VP2 and NSP2 also induce NSP5 hyperphosphorylation, the possible correlation between VLS formation and the NSP5 phosphorylation status was investigated without evidence of a direct link. In VLS induced by NSP2, the polymerase VP1 was recruited, while the middle layer protein VP6 was not, forming instead tubular structures. On the other hand, VLS induced by VP2 were able to recruit both VP1 and VP6. More importantly, in VLS formed when NSP5 was expressed with both inducers, all viroplasmic proteins were found co-localized, resembling their distribution in viroplasms. Our results suggest a key role for NSP5 in architectural assembly of viroplasms and in recruitment of viroplasmic proteins. A new role for VP2 as an inducer of viroplasms and of NSP5 hyperphosphorylation is also described. These data may contribute to the understanding of rotavirus morphogenesis.
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- R Contin
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy
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Sequestration of free tubulin molecules by the viral protein NSP2 induces microtubule depolymerization during rotavirus infection. J Virol 2009; 84:2522-32. [PMID: 20032187 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01883-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Microtubules, components of the cell cytoskeleton, play a central role in cellular trafficking. Here we show that rotavirus infection leads to a remodeling of the microtubule network together with the formation of tubulin granules. While most microtubules surrounding the nucleus depolymerize, others appear packed at the cell periphery. In microtubule depolymerization areas, tubulin granules are observed; they colocalize with viroplasms, viral compartments formed by interactions between rotavirus proteins NSP2 and NSP5. With purified proteins, we show that tubulin directly interacts in vitro with NSP2 but not with NSP5. The binding of NSP2 to tubulin is independent of its phosphatase activity. The comparison of three-dimensional (3-D) reconstructions of NSP2 octamers alone or associated with tubulin reveals electron densities in the positively charged grooves of NSP2 that we attribute to tubulin. Site-directed mutagenesis of NSP2 and competition assays between RNA and tubulin for NSP2 binding confirm that tubulin binds to these charged grooves of NSP2. Although the tubulin position within NSP2 grooves cannot be precisely determined, the tubulin C-terminal H12 alpha-helix could be involved in the interaction. NSP2 overexpression and rotavirus infection produce similar effects on the microtubule network. NSP2 depolymerizes microtubules and leads to tubulin granule formation. Our results demonstrate that tubulin is a viroplasm component and reveal an original mechanism. Tubulin sequestration by NSP2 induces microtubule depolymerization. This depolymerization probably reroutes the cell machinery by inhibiting trafficking and functions potentially involved in defenses to viral infections.
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Localization of mammalian orthoreovirus proteins to cytoplasmic factory-like structures via nonoverlapping regions of microNS. J Virol 2009; 84:867-82. [PMID: 19889754 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01571-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Virally induced structures called viral factories form throughout the cytoplasm of cells infected with mammalian orthoreoviruses (MRV). When expressed alone in cells, MRV nonstructural protein microNS forms factory-like structures very similar in appearance to viral factories, suggesting that it is involved in forming the structural matrix of these structures. microNS also associates with MRV core particles; the core proteins mu2, lambda1, lambda2, lambda3, and sigma2; and the RNA-binding nonstructural protein sigmaNS. These multiple associations result in the recruitment or retention of these viral proteins or particles at factory-like structures. In this study, we identified the regions of microNS necessary and sufficient for these associations and additionally examined the localization of viral RNA synthesis in infected cells. We found that short regions within the amino-terminal 220 residues of microNS are necessary for associations with core particles and necessary and sufficient for associations with the proteins mu2, lambda1, lambda2, sigma2, and sigmaNS. We also found that only the lambda3 protein associates with the carboxyl-terminal one-third of microNS and that viral RNA is synthesized within viral factories. These results suggest that microNS may act as a cytoplasmic scaffolding protein involved in localizing and coordinating viral replication or assembly intermediates for the efficient production of progeny core particles during MRV infection.
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Studies on the molecular biology of rotavirus, the major etiologic agent of gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide, have so far led to a large but not exhaustive knowledge of the mechanisms by which rotavirus replicates in the host cell. While the role of rotavirus structural proteins in the replication cycle is well defined, the functions of nonstructural proteins remain poorly understood. Recent experiments of RNA interference have clearly indicated the phases of the replication cycle for which the nonstructural proteins are essentially required. In addition, biochemical studies of their interactions with other viral proteins, together with immunofluorescence experiments on cells expressing recombinant proteins in different combinations, are providing new indications of their functions. This article contains a critical collection of the most recent achievements and the current hypotheses about the roles of nonstructural proteins in virus replication.
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- Francesca Arnoldi
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Netherton C, Moffat K, Brooks E, Wileman T. A guide to viral inclusions, membrane rearrangements, factories, and viroplasm produced during virus replication. Adv Virus Res 2007; 70:101-82. [PMID: 17765705 PMCID: PMC7112299 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(07)70004-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Virus replication can cause extensive rearrangement of host cell cytoskeletal and membrane compartments leading to the “cytopathic effect” that has been the hallmark of virus infection in tissue culture for many years. Recent studies are beginning to redefine these signs of viral infection in terms of specific effects of viruses on cellular processes. In this chapter, these concepts have been illustrated by describing the replication sites produced by many different viruses. In many cases, the cellular rearrangements caused during virus infection lead to the construction of sophisticated platforms in the cell that concentrate replicase proteins, virus genomes, and host proteins required for replication, and thereby increase the efficiency of replication. Interestingly, these same structures, called virus factories, virus inclusions, or virosomes, can recruit host components that are associated with cellular defences against infection and cell stress. It is possible that cellular defence pathways can be subverted by viruses to generate sites of replication. The recruitment of cellular membranes and cytoskeleton to generate virus replication sites can also benefit viruses in other ways. Disruption of cellular membranes can, for example, slow the transport of immunomodulatory proteins to the surface of infected cells and protect against innate and acquired immune responses, and rearrangements to cytoskeleton can facilitate virus release.
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- Christopher Netherton
- Vaccinology Group, Pirbright Laboratories, Institute for Animal Health, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Campagna M, Budini M, Arnoldi F, Desselberger U, Allende JE, Burrone OR. Impaired hyperphosphorylation of rotavirus NSP5 in cells depleted of casein kinase 1alpha is associated with the formation of viroplasms with altered morphology and a moderate decrease in virus replication. J Gen Virol 2007; 88:2800-2810. [PMID: 17872534 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82922-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The rotavirus (RV) non-structural protein 5, NSP5, is encoded by the smallest of the 11 genomic segments and localizes in 'viroplasms', cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in which viral RNA replication and packaging take place. NSP5 is essential for the replicative cycle of the virus because, in its absence, viroplasms are not formed and viral RNA replication and transcription do not occur. NSP5 is produced early in infection and undergoes a complex hyperphosphorylation process, leading to the formation of proteins differing in electrophoretic mobility. The role of hyperphosphorylation of NSP5 in the replicative cycle of rotavirus is unknown. Previous in vitro studies have suggested that the cellular kinase CK1alpha is responsible for the NSP5 hyperphosphorylation process. Here it is shown, by means of specific RNA interference, that in vivo, CK1alpha is the enzyme that initiates phosphorylation of NSP5. Lack of NSP5 hyperphosphorylation affected neither its interaction with the virus VP1 and NSP2 proteins normally found in viroplasms, nor the production of viral proteins. In contrast, the morphology of viroplasms was altered markedly in cells in which CK1alpha was depleted and a moderate decrease in the production of double-stranded RNA and infectious virus was observed. These data show that CK1alpha is the kinase that phosphorylates NSP5 in virus-infected cells and contribute to further understanding of the role of NSP5 in RV infection.
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- Michela Campagna
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34011 Trieste, Italy
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Programa de Biologia Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, 8380453 Santiago, Chile
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34011 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34011 Trieste, Italy
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Programa de Biologia Celular y Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Independencia 1027, 8380453 Santiago, Chile
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34011 Trieste, Italy
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Kumar M, Jayaram H, Vasquez-Del Carpio R, Jiang X, Taraporewala ZF, Jacobson RH, Patton JT, Prasad BVV. Crystallographic and biochemical analysis of rotavirus NSP2 with nucleotides reveals a nucleoside diphosphate kinase-like activity. J Virol 2007; 81:12272-84. [PMID: 17804496 PMCID: PMC2168982 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00984-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Rotavirus, the major pathogen of infantile gastroenteritis, carries a nonstructural protein, NSP2, essential for viroplasm formation and genome replication/packaging. In addition to RNA-binding and helix-destabilizing properties, NSP2 exhibits nucleoside triphosphatase activity. A conserved histidine (H225) functions as the catalytic residue for this enzymatic activity, and mutation of this residue abrogates genomic double-stranded RNA synthesis without affecting viroplasm formation. To understand the structural basis of the phosphatase activity of NSP2, we performed crystallographic analyses of native NSP2 and a functionally defective H225A mutant in the presence of nucleotides. These studies showed that nucleotides bind inside a cleft between the two domains of NSP2 in a region that exhibits structural similarity to ubiquitous cellular HIT (histidine triad) proteins. Only minor conformational alterations were observed in the cleft upon nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. This hydrolysis involved the formation of a stable phosphohistidine intermediate. These observations, reminiscent of cellular nucleoside diphosphate (NDP) kinases, prompted us to investigate whether NSP2 exhibits phosphoryl-transfer activity. Bioluminometric assay showed that NSP2 exhibits an NDP kinase-like activity that transfers the bound phosphate to NDPs. However, NSP2 is distinct from the highly conserved cellular NDP kinases in both its structure and catalytic mechanism, thus making NSP2 a potential target for antiviral drug design. With structural similarities to HIT proteins, which are not known to exhibit NDP kinase activity, NSP2 represents a unique example among structure-activity relationships. The newly observed phosphoryl-transfer activity of NSP2 may be utilized for homeostasis of nucleotide pools in viroplasms during genome replication.
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- Mukesh Kumar
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Sen A, Sen N, Mackow ER. The formation of viroplasm-like structures by the rotavirus NSP5 protein is calcium regulated and directed by a C-terminal helical domain. J Virol 2007; 81:11758-67. [PMID: 17699573 PMCID: PMC2168809 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01124-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The rotavirus NSP5 protein directs the formation of viroplasm-like structures (VLS) and is required for viroplasm formation within infected cells. In this report, we have defined signals within the C-terminal 21 amino acids of NSP5 that are required for VLS formation and that direct the insolubility and hyperphosphorylation of NSP5. Deleting C-terminal residues of NSP5 dramatically increased the solubility of N-terminally tagged NSP5 and prevented NSP5 hyperphosphorylation. Computer modeling and analysis of the NSP5 C terminus revealed the presence of an amphipathic alpha-helix spanning 21 C-terminal residues that is conserved among rotaviruses. Proline-scanning mutagenesis of the predicted helix revealed that single-amino-acid substitutions abolish NSP5 insolubility and hyperphosphorylation. Helix-disrupting NSP5 mutations also abolished localization of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-NSP5 fusions into VLS and directly correlate VLS formation with NSP5 insolubility. All mutations introduced into the hydrophobic face of the predicted NSP5 alpha-helix disrupted VLS formation, NSP5 insolubility, and the accumulation of hyperphosphorylated NSP5 isoforms. Some NSP5 mutants were highly soluble but still were hyperphosphorylated, indicating that NSP5 insolubility was not required for hyperphosphorylation. Expression of GFP containing the last 68 residues of NSP5 at its C terminus resulted in the formation of punctate VLS within cells. Interestingly, GFP-NSP5-C68 was diffusely dispersed in the cytoplasm when calcium was depleted from the medium, and after calcium resupplementation GFP-NSP5-C68 rapidly accumulated into punctate VLS. A potential calcium switch, formed by two tandem pseudo-EF-hand motifs (DxDxD), is present just upstream of the predicted alpha-helix. Mutagenesis of either DxDxD motif abolished the regulatory effect of calcium on VLS formation and resulted in the constitutive assembly of GFP-NSP5-C68 into punctate VLS. These results reveal specific residues within the NSP5 C-terminal domain that direct NSP5 hyperphosphorylation, insolubility, and VLS formation in addition to defining residues that constitute a calcium-dependent trigger of VLS formation. These studies identify functional determinants within the C terminus of NSP5 that regulate VLS formation and provide a target for inhibiting NSP5-directed VLS functions during rotavirus replication.
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- Adrish Sen
- Department of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Rainsford EW, McCrae MA. Characterization of the NSP6 protein product of rotavirus gene 11. Virus Res 2007; 130:193-201. [PMID: 17658646 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2007.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2007] [Revised: 05/25/2007] [Accepted: 06/11/2007] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The 12kDa non-structural protein 6 (NSP6) is the least studied of the rotavirus proteins. In an attempt to further characterize this protein mono-specific antisera was generated using purified protein expressed in E. coli. Pulse/chase radio-labeling of virus infected cells was used to show that it is expressed at a steady but low rate throughout the virus replication cycle. In contrast to the other rotavirus non-structural proteins, NSP6 was found to have a high rate of turnover, being completely degraded within 2h of synthesis. NSP6 tagged with GFP was used to probe the intracellular distribution of the protein, perinuclear aggregates were observed in the cytoplasm of transfected cells. Following virus infection of these transfected cells the aggregates were seen to redistribute to the viroplasms. Consistent with its localization to the site of viral genome replication and packaging, NSP6 was found to be a sequence independent nucleic acid binding protein, with similar affinities for ssRNA and dsRNA.
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- Edward W Rainsford
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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The rotavirus genome is composed of 11 segments of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). Rotavirus is the leading etiological agent of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide. Reverse genetics is the powerful and ideal methodology for the molecular study of virus replication, which enables the virus genome to be artificially manipulated. Very recently, we developed the first reverse genetics system for rotavirus, which enables one to generate an infectious rotavirus containing a novel gene segment derived from cDNA. In this review, we describe each steps of rotavirus replication to understand the background to the establishment of a reverse genetics system for rotavirus, and summarize the reverse genetics systems for segmented dsRNA viruses including rotavirus.
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- Satoshi Komoto
- Department of Virology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.
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Cabral-Romero C, Padilla-Noriega L. Association of rotavirus viroplasms with microtubules through NSP2 and NSP5. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 2007; 101:603-11. [PMID: 17072471 DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762006000600006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2006] [Accepted: 04/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Rotavirus replication and virus assembly take place in electrodense spherical structures known as viroplasms whose main components are the viral proteins NSP2 and NSP5. The viroplasms are produced since early times after infection and seem to grow by stepwise addition of viral proteins and by fusion, however, the mechanism of viropIasms formation is unknown. In this study we found that the viroplasms surface colocalized with microtubules, and seem to be caged by a microtubule network. Moreover inhibition of microtubule assembly with nocodazole interfered with viroplasms growth in rotavirus infected cells. We searched for a physical link between viroplasms and microtubules by co-immunoprecipitation assays, and we found that the proteins NSP2 and NSP5 were co-immunoprecipitated with anti-tubulin in rotavirus infected cells and also when they were transiently co-expressed or individually expressed. These results indicate that a functional microtubule network is needed for viroplasm growth presumably due to the association of viroplasms with microtubules via NSP2 and NSP5.
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- Claudio Cabral-Romero
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, DF 04510, México
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Patton JT. Viral factories in rotavirus-infected cells: interactions between protein and RNA components. Future Virol 2007. [DOI: 10.2217/17460794.2.2.157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Evaluation of: Jiang X, Jayaram H, Kumar M, Ludtke SJ, Estes MK, Prasad BVV: Cryoelectron microscopy structures of rotavirus NSP2-NSP5 and NSP2-RNA complexes: implications for genome replication. J. Virol. 80(21), 10829–10835 (2006). Rotavirus infection leads to the formation of large electron-dense inclusion bodies within the cytoplasm. These inclusions, termed viroplasms, represent viral factories in which the segmented double-stranded RNA genome of rotavirus is replicated and packaged into virion precursors. The two essential building blocks of the viroplasm are the nonstructural protein (NSP)2 octamer, a doughnut-shaped structure with RNA-binding and nucleoside-triphosphatase activities and dimers of the NSP5 phosphoprotein. Through the use of single-particle cryoelectron microscopy and 3D reconstruction, Jiang and colleagues obtained subnanometer images revealing that the two ligands, NSP5 and RNA, competitively bind to deep grooves spanning the surface of the NSP2 octamer. These results represent a major breakthrough in our understanding of the macromolecular interactions involved in the assembly and function of viral factories.
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- John T Patton
- National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rotavirus Molecular Biology Unit, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, 50 South Drive MSC 8026, Room 6314, Bethesda, MD 20892-8026, USA
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Arnoldi F, Campagna M, Eichwald C, Desselberger U, Burrone OR. Interaction of rotavirus polymerase VP1 with nonstructural protein NSP5 is stronger than that with NSP2. J Virol 2007; 81:2128-37. [PMID: 17182692 PMCID: PMC1865955 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01494-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2006] [Accepted: 12/07/2006] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Rotavirus morphogenesis starts in intracellular inclusion bodies called viroplasms. RNA replication and packaging are mediated by several viral proteins, of which VP1, the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and VP2, the core scaffolding protein, were shown to be sufficient to provide replicase activity in vitro. In vivo, however, viral replication complexes also contain the nonstructural proteins NSP2 and NSP5, which were shown to be essential for replication, to interact with each other, and to form viroplasm-like structures (VLS) when coexpressed in uninfected cells. In order to gain a better understanding of the intermediates formed during viral replication, this work focused on the interactions of NSP5 with VP1, VP2, and NSP2. We demonstrated a strong interaction of VP1 with NSP5 but only a weak one with NSP2 in cotransfected cells in the absence of other viral proteins or viral RNA. By contrast, we failed to coimmunoprecipitate VP2 with anti-NSP5 antibodies or NSP5 with anti-VP2 antibodies. We constructed a tagged form of VP1, which was found to colocalize in viroplasms and in VLS formed by NSP5 and NSP2. The tagged VP1 was able to replace VP1 structurally by being incorporated into progeny viral particles. When applying anti-tag-VP1 or anti-NSP5 antibodies, coimmunoprecipitation of tagged VP1 with NSP5 was found. Using deletion mutants of NSP5 or different fragments of NSP5 fused to enhanced green fluorescent protein, we identified the 48 C-terminal amino acids as the region essential for interaction with VP1.
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- F Arnoldi
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Patton JT, Silvestri LS, Tortorici MA, Vasquez-Del Carpio R, Taraporewala ZF. Rotavirus genome replication and morphogenesis: role of the viroplasm. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2006; 309:169-87. [PMID: 16909900 DOI: 10.1007/3-540-30773-7_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The rotaviruses, members of the family Reoviridae, are icosahedral triple-layered viruses with genomes consisting of 11 segments of double-stranded (ds)RNA. A characteristic feature of rotavirus-infected cells is the formation of large cytoplasmic inclusion bodies, termed viroplasms. These dynamic and highly organized structures serve as viral factories that direct the packaging and replication of the viral genome into early capsid assembly intermediates. Migration of the intermediates to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) initiates a budding process that culminates in final capsid assembly. Recent information on the development and organization of viroplasms, the structure and function of its components, and interactive pathways linking RNA synthesis and capsid assembly provide new insight into how these microenvironments serve to interface the replication and morphogenetic processes of the virus.
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- J T Patton
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Drive, MSC 8026, Room 6314, Bethesda, MD 20892-8026, USA.
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Komoto S, Taniguchi K. Reverse genetics systems of segmented double-stranded RNA viruses including rotavirus. Future Virol 2006. [DOI: 10.2217/17460794.1.6.833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The rotavirus genome is composed of 11 segments of double-stranded (ds)RNA. Recent studies have elucidated the precise mechanisms in transcription and replication of rotavirus RNA mainly by in vitro experiments. However, the ideal methodology for the molecular study of rotavirus replication is reverse genetics, which enables the viral genome to be artifically manipulated. Since the development of the first reverse genetics system for RNA virus in bacteriophage QB in 1978, the methodology has been developed for a variety of RNA viruses with plus-strand, minus-strand or dsRNA as a genome. However, there have been no reports on the reverse genetics of the viruses in the family Reoviridae with a genome of 10–12 segmented dsRNA, except for reovirus. This review describes the replication cycle of rotavirus with the aim of providing a general background to the development of rotavirus reverse genetics, and summarizes the reverse genetics system for dsRNA viruses, including rotavirus.
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- Satoshi Komoto
- Fujita Health University, School of Medicine, Department of Virology & Parasitology, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan
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- Fujita Health University, School of Medicine, Department of Virology & Parasitology, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan
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Taraporewala ZF, Jiang X, Vasquez-Del Carpio R, Jayaram H, Prasad BVV, Patton JT. Structure-function analysis of rotavirus NSP2 octamer by using a novel complementation system. J Virol 2006; 80:7984-94. [PMID: 16873255 PMCID: PMC1563784 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00172-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Viral inclusion bodies, or viroplasms, that form in rotavirus-infected cells direct replication and packaging of the segmented double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome. NSP2, one of two rotavirus proteins needed for viroplasm assembly, possesses NTPase, RNA-binding, and helix-unwinding activities. NSP2 of the rotavirus group causing endemic infantile diarrhea (group A) was shown to self-assemble into large doughnut-shaped octamers with circumferential grooves and deep clefts containing nucleotide-binding histidine triad (HIT)-like motifs. Here, we demonstrate that NSP2 of group C rotavirus, a group that fails to reassort with group A viruses, retains the unique architecture of the group A octamer but differs in surface charge distribution. By using an NSP2-dependent complementation system, we show that the HIT-dependent NTPase activity of NSP2 is necessary for dsRNA synthesis, but not for viroplasm formation. The complementation system also showed that despite the retention of the octamer structure and the HIT-like fold, group C NSP2 failed to rescue replication and viroplasm formation in NSP2-deficient cells infected with group A rotavirus. The distinct differences in the surface charges on the Bristol and SA11 NSP2 octamers suggest that charge complementarity of the viroplasm-forming proteins guides the specificity of viroplasm formation and, possibly, reassortment restriction between rotavirus groups.
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- Zenobia F Taraporewala
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Campagna M, Burrone OR. Fusion of tags induces spurious phosphorylation of rotavirus NSP5. J Virol 2006; 80:8283-4; author reply 8284-5. [PMID: 16873287 PMCID: PMC1563783 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00813-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Michela Campagna
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyArea Science Park, Padriciano 9934012 Trieste, Italy
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyArea Science Park, Padriciano 9934012 Trieste, Italy
- Phone: 3904037571, Fax: 39040226555, E-mail:
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Jiang X, Jayaram H, Kumar M, Ludtke SJ, Estes MK, Prasad BVV. Cryoelectron microscopy structures of rotavirus NSP2-NSP5 and NSP2-RNA complexes: implications for genome replication. J Virol 2006; 80:10829-35. [PMID: 16928740 PMCID: PMC1641785 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01347-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The replication and packaging of the rotavirus genome, comprising 11 segments of double-stranded RNA, take place in specialized compartments called viroplasms, which are formed during infection and involve a coordinated interplay of multiple components. Two rotavirus nonstructural proteins, NSP2 (with nucleoside triphosphatase, single-stranded RNA [ssRNA] binding and helix-destabilizing activities) and NSP5, are essential in these events. Previous structural analysis of NSP2 showed that it is an octamer in crystals, obeying 4-2-2 crystal symmetry, with a large 35-A central hole along the fourfold axis and deep grooves at one of the twofold axes. To ascertain that the solution structure of NSP2 is the same as that in the crystals and investigate how NSP2 interacts with NSP5 and RNA, we carried out single-particle cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) analysis of NSP2 alone and in complexes with NSP5 and ssRNA at subnanometer resolution. Because full-length NSP5 caused severe aggregation upon mixing with NSP2, the deletion construct NSP566-188 was used in these studies. Our studies show that the solution structure of NSP2 is same as the crystallographic octamer and that both NSP566-188 and ssRNA bind to the grooves in the octamer, which are lined by positively charged residues. The fitting of the NSP2 crystal structure to cryo-EM reconstructions of the complexes indicates that, in contrast to the binding of NSP566-188, the binding of RNA induces noticeable conformational changes in the NSP2 octamer. Consistent with the observation that both NSP5 and RNA share the same binding site on the NSP2 octamer, filter binding assays showed that NSP5 competes with ssRNA binding, indicating that one of the functions of NSP5 is to regulate NSP2-RNA interactions during genome replication.
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- Xiaofang Jiang
- Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Wei T, Shimizu T, Hagiwara K, Kikuchi A, Moriyasu Y, Suzuki N, Chen H, Omura T. Pns12 protein of Rice dwarf virus is essential for formation of viroplasms and nucleation of viral-assembly complexes. J Gen Virol 2006; 87:429-438. [PMID: 16432031 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81425-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies, known as viroplasms or viral factories, are assumed to be the sites of replication of members of the family Reoviridae. Immunocytochemical and biochemical analyses were carried out to characterize the poorly understood viroplasms of the phytoreovirus Rice dwarf virus (RDV). Within 6 h of inoculation of cells, viroplasms, namely discrete cytoplasmic inclusions, were formed that contained the non-structural proteins Pns6, Pns11 and Pns12 of RDV, which appeared to be the constituents of the inclusions. Formation of similar inclusions in non-host insect cells upon expression of Pns12 in a baculovirus system and the association of molecules of Pns12 in vitro suggested that the inclusions observed in RDV-infected cells were composed basically of Pns12. Core proteins P1, P3, P5 and P7 and core virus particles were identified in the interior region of the inclusions. In contrast, accumulation of the outer capsid proteins P2, P8 and P9 and of intact virus particles was evident in the peripheral regions of the inclusions. These observations suggest that core particles were constructed inside the inclusions, whereas outer capsid proteins were assembled at the periphery of the inclusions. Viral inclusions were shown to be the sites of viral RNA synthesis by labelling infected cells with 5-bromouridine 5'-triphosphate. The number of viroplasms decreased with time post-inoculation as their sizes increased, suggesting that inclusions might fuse with one another during the virus-propagation process. Our results are consistent with a model, proposed for vertebrate reoviruses, in which viroplasms play a pivotal role in virus assembly.
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- Taiyun Wei
- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki 300-0332, Japan
- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, 2-20-1 Chuo, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan
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- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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- Laboratory of Virology, National Agricultural Research Center, 3-1-1 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8666, Japan
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Silvestri LS, Tortorici MA, Vasquez-Del Carpio R, Patton JT. Rotavirus glycoprotein NSP4 is a modulator of viral transcription in the infected cell. J Virol 2006; 79:15165-74. [PMID: 16306588 PMCID: PMC1316041 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.24.15165-15174.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The outer shell of the rotavirus triple-layered virion is lost during cell entry, yielding a double-layered particle (DLP) that directs synthesis of viral plus-strand RNAs. The plus-strand RNAs act as templates for synthesis of the segmented double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome in viral inclusion bodies (viroplasms). The viral endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident glycoprotein NSP4 recruits progeny DLPs formed in viroplasms to the ER, where the particles are converted to triple-layered particles (TLPs) via budding. In this study, we have used short interfering RNAs to probe the role of NSP4 in the viral life cycle. Our analysis showed that knockdown of NSP4 expression had no marked effect on the expression of other viral proteins or on the replication of the dsRNA genome segments. However, NSP4 loss of function suppressed viroplasm maturation and caused a maldistribution of nonstructural and structural proteins that normally accumulate in viroplasms. NSP4 loss of function also inhibited formation of packaged virus particles, instead inducing the accumulation of empty particles. Most significant was the observation that NSP4 knockdown led to dramatically increased levels of viral transcription late in the infection cycle. These findings point to a multifaceted role for NSP4 in virus replication, including influencing the development of viroplasms, linking genome packaging with particle assembly, and acting as a modulator of viral transcription. By recruiting transcriptionally active or potentially active DLPs to the ER for conversion to quiescent TLPs, NSP4 acts as a feedback inhibitor down-regulating viral transcription when adequate levels of plus-strand RNAs are available to allow for productive infection.
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- Lynn S Silvestri
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Dr., MSC 8026, Room 6314, Bethesda, MD 20892-8026, USA
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Sen A, Agresti D, Mackow ER. Hyperphosphorylation of the rotavirus NSP5 protein is independent of serine 67, [corrected] NSP2, or [corrected] the intrinsic insolubility of NSP5 is regulated by cellular phosphatases. J Virol 2006; 80:1807-16. [PMID: 16439537 PMCID: PMC1367154 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.80.4.1807-1816.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The NSP5 protein is required for viroplasm formation during rotavirus infection and is hyperphosphorylated into 32- to 35-kDa isoforms. Earlier studies reported that NSP5 is not hyperphosphorylated without NSP2 coexpression or deleting the NSP5 N terminus and that serine 67 is essential for NSP5 hyperphosphorylation. In this report, we show that full-length NSP5 is hyperphosphorylated in the absence of NSP2 or serine 67 and demonstrate that hyperphosphorylated NSP5 is predominantly present in previously unrecognized cellular fractions that are insoluble in 0.2% sodium dodecyl sulfate. The last 68 residues of NSP5 are sufficient to direct green fluorescent protein into insoluble fractions and cause green fluorescent protein localization into viroplasm-like structures; however, NSP5 insolubility was intrinsic and did not require NSP5 hyperphosphorylation. When we mutated serine 67 to alanine we found that the NSP5 mutant was both hyperphosphorylated and insoluble, identical to unmodified NSP5, and as a result serine 67 is not required for NSP5 phosphorylation. Interestingly, treating cells with the phosphatase inhibitor calyculin A permitted the accumulation of soluble hyperphosphorylated NSP5 isoforms. This suggests that soluble NSP5 is constitutively dephosphorylated by cellular phosphatases and demonstrates that hyperphosphorylation does not direct NSP5 insolubility. Collectively these findings indicate that NSP5 hyperphosphorylation and insolubility are completely independent parameters and that analyzing insoluble NSP5 is essential for studies assessing NSP5 phosphorylation. Our results also demonstrate the involvement of cellular phosphatases in regulating NSP5 phosphorylation and indicate that in the absence of other rotavirus proteins, domains on soluble and insoluble NSP5 recruit cellular kinases and phosphatases that coordinate NSP5 hyperphosphorylation.
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- Adrish Sen
- Department of Medicine and Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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Perez CA, Eichwald C, Burrone O, Mendoza D. Rotavirus vp7 antigen produced by Lactococcus lactis induces neutralizing antibodies in mice. J Appl Microbiol 2006; 99:1158-64. [PMID: 16238746 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2005.02709.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS To determine if live recombinant Lactococcus lactis strains expressing rotavirus VP7 antigen are immunogenic in mice. METHODS AND RESULTS Using the food-grade lactic acid bacterium L. lactis as a carrier, we expressed VP7, the major rotavirus outer shell protein and one of the main components of the infective particle, as a cytoplasmic, secreted or cell wall anchored forms. Our results showed that recombinant L. lactis strains secreting VP7 proved to be more immunogenic than strains containing the antigen in the cytoplasm or anchored to the cell wall. CONCLUSIONS This is the first demonstration that recombinant L. lactis producing VP7 can induce the production of a neutralizing antibody response against rotavirus by the intragastric route. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Rotaviruses are the single most important aetiological agents of severe diarrhoea of infants and young children worldwide and have been estimated to be responsible for 650 000-800 000 deaths per year of children younger than 5 years old in development countries. Thus, the development of a safe and effective vaccine has been a global public health goal. Although two of five mice orally inoculated with L. lactis strains secreting VP7 elicited a specific-antibody response, these strains could be very useful to be used as a prototype to develop a new generation of protective rotavirus vaccines.
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- C A Perez
- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR) and Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha, Rosario, Argentina
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Patton JT, Vasquez-Del Carpio R, Tortorici MA, Taraporewala ZF. Coupling of Rotavirus Genome Replication and Capsid Assembly. Adv Virus Res 2006; 69:167-201. [PMID: 17222694 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(06)69004-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The Reoviridae family represents a diverse collection of viruses with segmented double-stranded (ds)RNA genomes, including some that are significant causes of disease in humans, livestock, and plants. The genome segments of these viruses are never detected free in the infected cell but are transcribed and replicated within viral cores by RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP). Insight into the replication mechanism has been provided from studies on Rotavirus, a member of the Reoviridae whose RdRP can specifically recognize viral plus (+) strand RNAs and catalyze their replication to dsRNAs in vitro. These analyses have revealed that although the rotavirus RdRP can interact with recognition signals in (+) strand RNAs in the absence of other proteins, the conversion of this complex to one that can support initiation of dsRNA synthesis requires the presence and partial assembly of the core capsid protein. By this mechanism, the viral polymerase can carry out dsRNA synthesis only when capsid protein is available to package its newly made product. By preventing the accumulation of naked dsRNA within the cell, the virus avoids triggering dsRNA-dependent interferon signaling pathways that can induce expression and activation of antiviral host proteins.
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- John T Patton
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Vascotto F, Visintin M, Cattaneo A, Burrone OR. Design and selection of an intrabody library produced de-novo for the non-structural protein NSP5 of rotavirus. J Immunol Methods 2005; 301:31-40. [PMID: 15907924 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2005.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2004] [Revised: 02/24/2005] [Accepted: 03/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Intracellular antibodies or intrabodies have great potential in protein knockout strategies for intracellular antigens. We applied the Intracellular Antibody Capture Technology for the direct selection in yeast of a mouse scFv library (V(L)-V(H) format) constructed from animals immunised with recombinant non-structural protein NSP5 of Rotavirus. We selected five different intracellular antibodies (ICAbs), which specifically recognize Delta2, an NSP5 deletion mutant used as bait. The anti-NSP5 ICAbs were well expressed both in yeast and mammalian cells as cytoplasmic or nuclear-tagged forms. By immunofluorescence and co-immunoprecipitation assays we characterised the intracellular interaction of the five anti-NSP5 ICAbs with the co-expressed antigens.
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- Fulvia Vascotto
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Padriciano 99, 34012 Trieste, Italy
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Broering TJ, Arnold MM, Miller CL, Hurt JA, Joyce PL, Nibert ML. Carboxyl-proximal regions of reovirus nonstructural protein muNS necessary and sufficient for forming factory-like inclusions. J Virol 2005; 79:6194-206. [PMID: 15858004 PMCID: PMC1091696 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.10.6194-6206.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mammalian orthoreoviruses are believed to replicate in distinctive, cytoplasmic inclusion bodies, commonly called viral factories or viroplasms. The viral nonstructural protein muNS has been implicated in forming the matrix of these structures, as well as in recruiting other components to them for putative roles in genome replication and particle assembly. In this study, we sought to identify the regions of muNS that are involved in forming factory-like inclusions in transfected cells in the absence of infection or other viral proteins. Sequences in the carboxyl-terminal one-third of the 721-residue muNS protein were linked to this activity. Deletion of as few as eight residues from the carboxyl terminus of muNS resulted in loss of inclusion formation, suggesting that some portion of these residues is required for the phenotype. A region spanning residues 471 to 721 of muNS was the smallest one shown to be sufficient for forming factory-like inclusions. The region from positions 471 to 721 (471-721 region) includes both of two previously predicted coiled-coil segments in muNS, suggesting that one or both of these segments may also be required for inclusion formation. Deletion of the more amino-terminal one of the two predicted coiled-coil segments from the 471-721 region resulted in loss of the phenotype, although replacement of this segment with Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein, which is known to weakly dimerize, largely restored inclusion formation. Sequences between the two predicted coiled-coil segments were also required for forming factory-like inclusions, and mutation of either one His residue (His570) or one Cys residue (Cys572) within these sequences disrupted the phenotype. The His and Cys residues are part of a small consensus motif that is conserved across muNS homologs from avian orthoreoviruses and aquareoviruses, suggesting this motif may have a common function in these related viruses. The inclusion-forming 471-721 region of muNS was shown to provide a useful platform for the presentation of peptides for studies of protein-protein association through colocalization to factory-like inclusions in transfected cells.
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- Teresa J Broering
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
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