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Attoui H, Jaafar FM, Belhouchet M, Aldrovandi N, Tao S, Chen B, Liang G, Tesh RB, de Micco P, de Lamballerie X. Yunnan orbivirus, a new orbivirus species isolated from Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes in China. J Gen Virol 2005; 86:3409-3417. [PMID: 16298988 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81258-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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An orbivirus designated Yunnan orbivirus (YUOV) was isolated from Culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes collected in the Yunnan province of China. Electron microscopy showed particles with typical orbivirus morphology. The YUOV genome was sequenced completely and compared with previously characterized orbivirus genomes. Significant identity scores were detected between proteins encoded by the segments (Seg-1 to Seg-10) of YUOV and those encoded by their homologues in insect-borne and tick-borne orbiviruses. Analysis of VP1 (Pol) and VP2 (T2, which correlates with the virus serogroup) indicated that YUOV is a new species of the genus Orbivirus that is unrelated to the other insect-borne orbiviruses. The replication of YUOV in mosquito cell lines was restricted to Aedes albopictus cells and the virus failed to replicate in mammalian cell lines. However, intraperitoneal injection of virus into naïve mice resulted in productive, non-lethal virus replication and viraemia. Infected mice developed serum neutralizing antibodies and were protected against a new infection challenge. Sequence analysis of clones from the segments encoding outer coat proteins (Seg-3 and Seg-6) of YUOV recovered from mouse blood did not show significant changes in the sequences. The availability of the complete genome sequence will facilitate the development of sequence-specific PCR assays for the study of YUOV epidemiology in the field.
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- Houssam Attoui
- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100052, China
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- Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100052, China
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- Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100052, China
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA
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- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Maladies Virales Émergentes et Systèmes d'Information UR 034, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292/IFR48, Université de la Méditerranée, EFS Alpes-Méditerranée/Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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Pritchard LI, Chua KB, Cummins D, Hyatt A, Crameri G, Eaton BT, Wang LF. Pulau virus; a new member of the Nelson Bay orthoreovirus species isolated from fruit bats in Malaysia. Arch Virol 2005; 151:229-39. [PMID: 16205863 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-005-0644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2005] [Accepted: 08/17/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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After the outbreak of Nipah virus (NiV) in 1998-99, which resulted in 105 human deaths and the culling of more than one million pigs, a search was initiated for the natural host reservoir of NiV on Tioman Island off the east coast of Malaysia. Three different syncytia-forming viruses were isolated from fruit bats on the island. They were Nipah virus, Tioman virus (a novel paramyxovirus related to Menangle virus), and a reovirus, named Pulau virus (PuV), which is the subject of this study. PuV displayed the typical ultra structural morphology of a reovirus and was neutralised by serum against Nelson Bay reovirus (NBV), a reovirus isolated from a fruit bat (Pteropus poliocephalus) in Australia over 30 years ago. PuV was fusogenic and formed large syncytia in Vero cells. Comparison of dsRNA segments between PuV and NBV showed distinct mobility differences for the S1 and S2 segments. Complete sequence analysis of all four S segments revealed a close relationship between PuV and NBV, with nucleotide sequence identity varying from 88% for S3 segment to 56% for the S1 segment. Similarly phylogenetic analysis of deduced protein sequences confirmed that PuV is closely related to NBV. In this paper we discuss the similarities and differences between PuV and NBV which support the classification of PuV as a novel mammalian, fusogenic reovirus within the Nelson Bay orthoreovirus species, in the genus Orthoreovirus, family Reoviridae.
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- L I Pritchard
- CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia.
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Zhang X, Ji Y, Zhang L, Harrison SC, Marinescu DC, Nibert ML, Baker TS. Features of reovirus outer capsid protein mu1 revealed by electron cryomicroscopy and image reconstruction of the virion at 7.0 Angstrom resolution. Structure 2005; 13:1545-57. [PMID: 16216585 PMCID: PMC4126556 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2005] [Revised: 07/14/2005] [Accepted: 07/16/2005] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Reovirus is a useful model for addressing the molecular basis of membrane penetration by one of the larger nonenveloped animal viruses. We now report the structure of the reovirus virion at approximately 7.0 A resolution as obtained by electron cryomicroscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction. Several features of the myristoylated outer capsid protein mu1, not seen in a previous X-ray crystal structure of the mu1-sigma3 heterohexamer, are evident in the virion. These features appear to be important for stabilizing the outer capsid, regulating the conformational changes in mu1 that accompany perforation of target membranes, and contributing directly to membrane penetration during cell entry.
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- Xing Zhang
- Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Computer Sciences Department University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 32816
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- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Computer Sciences Department University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 32816
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Department of Biological Sciences Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Biology University of California, San Diego La Jolla, California 92093
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Attoui H, Mohd Jaafar F, Belhouchet M, Biagini P, Cantaloube JF, de Micco P, de Lamballerie X. Expansion of family Reoviridae to include nine-segmented dsRNA viruses: isolation and characterization of a new virus designated Aedes pseudoscutellaris reovirus assigned to a proposed genus (Dinovernavirus). Virology 2005; 343:212-23. [PMID: 16171838 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2005] [Revised: 08/01/2005] [Accepted: 08/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Family Reoviridae is known, by definition, to contain dsRNA viruses with 10-12 genome segments. We report here the characterization of the first member of this family with a nine-segmented genome. This virus was isolated from Aedes pseudoscutellaris mosquito cells and designated aedes pseudoscutellaris reovirus (APRV). Virions are single-shelled with turrets but are non-occluded by contrast to cypoviruses. APRV replicates in various mosquito cell lines, but not in mice or mammalian cells. Complete sequence analysis showed that APRV is phylogenetically related to cypoviruses, fijiviruses and oryzaviruses. The maximum amino acid identities with cypoviruses, oryzaviruses or fijiviruses in the polymerase, are compatible with values observed between these genera and lower than values within a given genus. This suggests that APRV should be classified within a new genus that we designated Dinovernavirus (sigla from D: Double-stranded, i: insect, nove: nine from the latin "novem", rna: RNA, virus) in family Reoviridae.
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- Houssam Attoui
- Unité des Virus Emergents EA3292, Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, Tropicale et Transfusionnelle, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France.
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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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Seng EK, Fang Q, Sin YM, Lam TJ. Molecular characterization of a major outer capsid protein encoded by the Threadfin aquareovirus (TFV) gene segment 10 (S10). Arch Virol 2005; 150:2021-36. [PMID: 15931464 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-005-0550-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2004] [Accepted: 04/04/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Genome segment 10 (S10) of Threadfin aquareovirus (TFV) was cloned, sequenced, analyzed and found to be 987 bp long encoding a protein of 298 aa with a predicted molecular mass of 32.0 kDa. The TFV S10 gene possesses terminal motifs, (5' GTTTTA and ATTCATC 3') which are also conserved in the S6 and S11 TFV gene segments. Sequence comparison revealed that the TFV S10 gene was similar to the Striped bass reovirus (SBR) VP7 outer capsid protein (OCP). A conserved putative zinc-finger motif, CCHC, present in the mammalian reovirus (MRV) delta3 protein, was identified in TFV and other aquareovirus VP7 protein. Phylogenetic analysis of the TFV VP7 protein indicated that TFV is closely related to SBR and Chum salmon reovirus (CSV) and possibly belong to the same species Aquareovirus A as SBR and CSV. The TFV VP7 protein was expressed in E. coli, purified and injected into mice. Serum specific antibodies were generated, however, the serum showed weak neutralizing activity. In contrast, co-incubation of this serum with another serum obtained from mice immunized with another OCP encoded by the TFV S6 gene segment resulted in a highly elevated antibody neutralization titer.
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- E K Seng
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
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Jaafar FM, Attoui H, Mertens PPC, de Micco P, de Lamballerie X. Structural organization of an encephalitic human isolate of Banna virus (genus Seadornavirus, family Reoviridae). J Gen Virol 2005; 86:1147-1157. [PMID: 15784909 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80578-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Banna virus (BAV) is the type species of the genus Seadornavirus within the family Reoviridae. The Chinese BAV isolate (BAV-Ch), which causes encephalitis in humans, was shown to have a structural organization and particle morphology reminiscent of that of rotaviruses, with fibre proteins projecting from the surface of the particle. Intact BAV-Ch virus particles contain seven structural proteins, two of which (VP4 and VP9) form the outer coat. The inner (core) particles contain five additional proteins (VP1, VP2, VP3, VP8 and VP10) and are ‘non-turreted’, with a relatively smooth surface appearance. VP2 is the ‘T=2’ protein that forms the innermost ‘subcore’ layer, whilst VP8 is the ‘T=13’ protein forming the core-surface layer. Sequence comparisons indicate that BAV VP9 and VP10 are equivalent to the VP8* and VP5* domains, respectively, of rotavirus outer-coat protein VP4 (GenBank accession no. P12976). VP9 has also been shown to be responsible for virus attachment to the host-cell surface and may be involved in internalization. These similarities reveal a previously unreported genetic link between the genera Rotavirus and Seadornavirus, although the expression of BAV VP9 and VP10 from two separate genome segments, rather than by the proteolytic cleavage of a single gene product (as seen in rotavirus VP4), suggests a significant evolutionary jump between the members of these two genera.
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- Fauziah Mohd Jaafar
- Unité des Virus Emergents: EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents: EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France
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- Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey GU24 0NF, UK
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- Unité des Virus Emergents: EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France
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- Maladies Virales Émergentes et Systèmes d'Information UR034, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Marseille, France
- Unité des Virus Emergents: EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France
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Seng EK, Fang Q, Sin YM, Lam TJ. Molecular Cloning, DNA Sequence Analysis, and Expression of cDNA Sequence of RNA Genomic Segment 6 (S6) that Encodes a Viral Outer Capsid Protein of Threadfin Aquareovirus (TFV). Virus Genes 2005; 30:209-21. [PMID: 15744578 DOI: 10.1007/s11262-004-5629-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2004] [Accepted: 09/09/2004] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The genome segment 6 (S6) of threadfin reovirus (TFV) was cloned and sequenced. The entire S6 nucleotide sequence is 2056 bp long with an open reading frame that encodes a protein of 653 amino acids. Sequence analysis of the TFV S6 genome revealed that the 5'-terminal sequence, GTTTTA and the 3'-terminal sequence, ATTCATC of the plus strand is common to other genome segments of TFV. The pentanucleotide, TCATC, at the 3'-terminal of the plus strand was also conserved in other reported isolates of Aquareovirus such as chum salmon reovirus (CSV), striped bass reovirus (SBR), grass carp reovirus (GCRV) and golden shiner reovirus (GSV) as well as to the 10 genome segments of mammalian reovirus (MRV). Blast results indicated that the TFV S6 gene segment sequence had high identity towards the CSV S6 gene sequence, which codes for the CSV outer coat protein. This implied that the TFV S6 gene segment codes for an outer capsid protein (OCP) of the virus. Amino acid sequence analysis of this TFV OCP sequence revealed the presence of a putative conserved asparagine-proline (Asn-Pro) protease cleavage site, which was found in all reported isolates of Aquareovirus as well as in the MRV mu1 protein. N-terminal sequencing of the corresponding S6 native protein obtained from purified TFV particles verified the presence of this cleavage site. Phylogenetic analysis of the TFV S6 protein revealed that TFV was closely related to CSV, from Aquareovirus species, ARV-A. Cloning of the TFV S6 gene sequence into an Escherichia coli expression host produced a recombinant protein that corresponded to the predicated size of the OCP of TFV. Immunization of mice using this recombinant outer capsid protein (rOCP) revealed that the protein was able to elicit an antibody response, thus indicating that the rOCP of TFV was immunogenic.
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- Eng Khuan Seng
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore, 117543, Singapore.
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Odegard AL, Chandran K, Zhang X, Parker JSL, Baker TS, Nibert ML. Putative autocleavage of outer capsid protein micro1, allowing release of myristoylated peptide micro1N during particle uncoating, is critical for cell entry by reovirus. J Virol 2004; 78:8732-45. [PMID: 15280481 PMCID: PMC479062 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.16.8732-8745.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Several nonenveloped animal viruses possess an autolytic capsid protein that is cleaved as a maturation step during assembly to yield infectious virions. The 76-kDa major outer capsid protein micro1 of mammalian orthoreoviruses (reoviruses) is also thought to be autocatalytically cleaved, yielding the virion-associated fragments micro1N (4 kDa; myristoylated) and micro1C (72 kDa). In this study, we found that micro1 cleavage to yield micro1N and micro1C was not required for outer capsid assembly but contributed greatly to the infectivity of the assembled particles. Recoated particles containing mutant, cleavage-defective micro1 (asparagine --> alanine substitution at amino acid 42) were competent for attachment; processing by exogenous proteases; structural changes in the outer capsid, including micro1 conformational change and sigma1 release; and transcriptase activation but failed to mediate membrane permeabilization either in vitro (no hemolysis) or in vivo (no coentry of the ribonucleotoxin alpha-sarcin). In addition, after these particles were allowed to enter cells, the delta region of micro1 continued to colocalize with viral core proteins in punctate structures, indicating that both elements remained bound together in particles and/or trapped within the same subcellular compartments, consistent with a defect in membrane penetration. If membrane penetration activity was supplied in trans by a coinfecting genome-deficient particle, the recoated particles with cleavage-defective micro1 displayed much higher levels of infectivity. These findings led us to propose a new uncoating intermediate, at which particles are trapped in the absence of micro1N/micro1C cleavage. We additionally showed that this cleavage allowed the myristoylated, N-terminal micro1N fragment to be released from reovirus particles during entry-related uncoating, analogous to the myristoylated, N-terminal VP4 fragment of picornavirus capsid proteins. The results thus suggest that hydrophobic peptide release following capsid protein autocleavage is part of a general mechanism of membrane penetration shared by several diverse nonenveloped animal viruses.
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- Amy L Odegard
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Jaafar FM, Attoui H, de Micco P, de Lamballerie X. Termination and read-through proteins encoded by genome segment 9 of Colorado tick fever virus. J Gen Virol 2004; 85:2237-2244. [PMID: 15269364 DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.80019-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Genome segment 9 (Seg-9) of Colorado tick fever virus (CTFV) is 1884 bp long and contains a large open reading frame (ORF; 1845 nt in length overall), although a single in-frame stop codon (at nt 1052-1054) reduces the ORF coding capacity by approximately 40 %. However, analyses of highly conserved RNA sequences in the vicinity of the stop codon indicate that it belongs to a class of 'leaky terminators'. The third nucleotide positions in codons situated both before and after the stop codon, shows the highest variability, suggesting that both regions are translated during virus replication. This also suggests that the stop signal is functionally leaky, allowing read-through translation to occur. Indeed, both the truncated 'termination' protein and the full-length 'read-through' protein (VP9 and VP9', respectively) were detected in CTFV-infected cells, in cells transfected with a plasmid expressing only Seg-9 protein products, and in the in vitro translation products from undenatured Seg-9 ssRNA. The ratios of full-length and truncated proteins generated suggest that read-through may be down-regulated by other viral proteins. Western blot analysis of infected cells and purified CTFV showed that VP9 is a structural component of the virion, while VP9' is a non-structural protein.
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- Fauziah Mohd Jaafar
- Unité des Virus Emergents (EA 3292, IFR 48): EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents (EA 3292, IFR 48): EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Unité des Virus Emergents (EA 3292, IFR 48): EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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- Maladies virales émergents et systèmes d'information UR 034, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
- Unité des Virus Emergents (EA 3292, IFR 48): EFS Alpes-Méditerranée and Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille 13005, France
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Seng EK, Fang Q, Lam TJ, Sin YM. Development of a rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostic assay for fish Aquareovirus based on RT-PCR. J Virol Methods 2004; 118:111-22. [PMID: 15081606 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2004.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2003] [Revised: 01/23/2004] [Accepted: 01/26/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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A rapid, sensitive and highly specific detection method for Aquareovirus based on reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was developed. Based on multiple sequence alignment of the cloned sequences of a local isolates, the Threadfin reovirus (TFV) and Guppy reovirus (GPV) with Grass carp reovirus (GCRV), a pair of degenerate primers was selected carefully and synthesized. Using this primer combination, only one specific product, approximately 450 bp in length was obtained when RT-PCR was carried out using the genomic double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) of TFV, GPV and GCRV. Similar results were also obtained when Chum salmon reovirus (CSRV) and Striped bass reovirus (SBRV) dsRNA were used as templates. No products were observed when nucleic acids other than the dsRNA of the aquareoviruses described above were used as RT-PCR templates. This technique could detect not only TFV but also GPV and GCRV in low titer virus-infected cell cultured cells. Furthermore, this method has also been shown to be able to diagnose GPV-infected guppy (Poecilia reticulata) that exhibit clinical symptoms as well as GPV-carrier guppy. Collectively, these results showed that the RT-PCR amplification method using specific degenerate primers described below is very useful for rapid and accurate detection of a variety of aquareovirus strains isolated from different host species and origin.
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- E K Seng
- Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Block S1A, 05-02 Virology Lab, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore.
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Kim J, Tao Y, Reinisch KM, Harrison SC, Nibert ML. Orthoreovirus and Aquareovirus core proteins: conserved enzymatic surfaces, but not protein-protein interfaces. Virus Res 2004; 101:15-28. [PMID: 15010214 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2003.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Orthoreoviruses and Aquareoviruses constitute two respective genera in the family Reoviridae of double-stranded RNA viruses. Orthoreoviruses infect mammals, birds, and reptiles and have a genome comprising 10 RNA segments. Aquareoviruses infect fish and have a genome comprising 11 RNA segments. Despite these differences, recent structural and nucleotide sequence evidence indicate that the proteins of Orthoreoviruses and Aquareoviruses share many similarities. The focus of this review is on the structure and function of the Orthoreovirus core proteins lambda1, lambda2, lambda3, and sigma2, for which X-ray crystal structures have been recently reported. The homologous core proteins in Aquareoviruses are VP3, VP1, VP2, and VP6, respectively. By mapping the locations of conserved residues onto the Orthoreovirus crystal structures, we have found that enzymatic surfaces involved in mRNA synthesis are well conserved between these two groups of viruses, whereas several surfaces involved in protein-protein interactions are not well conserved. Other evidence indicates that the Orthoreovirus mu2 and Aquareovirus VP5 proteins are homologous, suggesting that VP5 is a core protein as mu2 is known to be. These findings provide further evidence that Orthoreoviruses and Aquareoviruses have diverged from a common ancestor and contribute to a growing understanding of the functions of the core proteins in viral mRNA synthesis.
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- Jonghwa Kim
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA
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Nibert ML, Kim J. Conserved sequence motifs for nucleoside triphosphate binding unique to turreted reoviridae members and coltiviruses. J Virol 2004; 78:5528-30. [PMID: 15113934 PMCID: PMC400372 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.78.10.5528-5530.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Qiu T, Luongo CL. Identification of two histidines necessary for reovirus mRNA guanylyltransferase activity. Virology 2004; 316:313-24. [PMID: 14644613 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Grass carp reovirus, a segmented double-stranded RNA virus, is a member of the genus aquareovirus in the Reoviridae family. Grass carp reovirus VP1 was shown to be an mRNA guanylyltransferase. The enzyme demonstrated maximum activity <or= pH 6.0. This low pH maximum is conserved among the known guanylyltransferases of the Reoviridae family, but is not a property of the KxDG guanylyltransferases. The positive effect of low pH was detected for both autoguanylylation and GMP transfer, the two steps in the guanylyltransferase reaction. The effect of pH on enzymatic activity suggested that histidine protonation is responsible for the observed increase in guanylyltransferase activity. Mutagenesis of the two histidines conserved among the orthoreovirus and aquareovirus guanylyltransferases demonstrated that they are necessary for activity.
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- Tao Qiu
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-2170, USA
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Kim J, Parker JSL, Murray KE, Nibert ML. Nucleoside and RNA triphosphatase activities of orthoreovirus transcriptase cofactor mu2. J Biol Chem 2003; 279:4394-403. [PMID: 14613938 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m308637200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mammalian Orthoreovirus (mORV) core particle is an icosahedral multienzyme complex for viral mRNA synthesis and provides a delimited system for mechanistic studies of that process. Previous genetic results have identified the mORV mu2 protein as a determinant of viral strain differences in the transcriptase and nucleoside triphosphatase activities of cores. New results in this report provided biochemical and genetic evidence that purified mu2 is itself a divalent cation-dependent nucleoside triphosphatase that can remove the 5' gamma-phosphate from RNA as well. Alanine substitutions in a putative nucleotide binding region of mu2 abrogated both functions but did not affect the purification profile of the protein or its known associations with microtubules and mORV microNS protein in vivo. In vitro microtubule binding by purified mu2 was also demonstrated and not affected by the mutations. Purified mu2 was further demonstrated to interact in vitro with the mORV RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, lambda3, and the presence of lambda3 mildly stimulated the triphosphatase activities of mu2. These findings confirm that mu2 is an enzymatic component of the mORV core and may contribute several possible functions to viral mRNA synthesis.
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- Jonghwa Kim
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Odegard AL, Chandran K, Liemann S, Harrison SC, Nibert ML. Disulfide bonding among micro 1 trimers in mammalian reovirus outer capsid: a late and reversible step in virion morphogenesis. J Virol 2003; 77:5389-400. [PMID: 12692241 PMCID: PMC153963 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.9.5389-5400.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We examined how a particular type of intermolecular disulfide (ds) bond is formed in the capsid of a cytoplasmically replicating nonenveloped animal virus despite the normally reducing environment inside cells. The micro 1 protein, a major component of the mammalian reovirus outer capsid, has been implicated in penetration of the cellular membrane barrier during cell entry. A recent crystal structure determination supports past evidence that the basal oligomer of micro 1 is a trimer and that 200 of these trimers surround the core in the fenestrated T=13 outer capsid of virions. We found in this study that the predominant forms of micro 1 seen in gels after the nonreducing disruption of virions are ds-linked dimers. Cys679, near the carboxyl terminus of micro 1, was shown to form this ds bond with the Cys679 residue from another micro 1 subunit. The crystal structure in combination with a cryomicroscopy-derived electron density map of virions indicates that the two subunits that contribute a Cys679 residue to each ds bond must be from adjacent micro 1 trimers in the outer capsid, explaining the trimer-dimer paradox. Successful in vitro assembly of the outer capsid by a nonbonding mutant of micro 1 (Cys679 substituted by serine) confirmed the role of Cys679 and suggested that the ds bonds are not required for assembly. A correlation between micro 1-associated ds bond formation and cell death in experiments in which virions were purified from cells at different times postinfection indicated that the ds bonds form late in infection, after virions are exposed to more oxidizing conditions than those in healthy cells. The infectivity measurements of the virions with differing levels of ds-bonded micro 1 showed that these bonds are not required for infection in culture. The ds bonds in purified virions were susceptible to reduction and reformation in situ, consistent with their initial formation late in morphogenesis and suggesting that they may undergo reduction during the entry of reovirus particles into new cells.
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- Amy L Odegard
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Dawe S, Boutilier J, Duncan R. Identification and characterization of a baboon reovirus-specific nonstructural protein encoded by the bicistronic s4 genome segment. Virology 2002; 304:44-52. [PMID: 12490402 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2002.1725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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All characterized orthoreoviruses encode a characteristic spike-like protein on their polycistronic S1 genome segments that mediates virus cell attachment. In the case of baboon reovirus (BRV), the polycistronic S-class genome segment corresponds to the smallest S4 segment. We recently determined that the 5'-proximal open reading frame (ORF) of the bicistronic S4 segment encodes a nonstructural protein responsible for virus-induced syncytium formation. Current analysis indicates that the p16 protein encoded by the 3'-proximal ORF of the BRV S4 genome segment shows no sequence similarity to any other protein encoded by the orthoreoviruses, including the well-characterized sigma1/sigmaC reovirus cell attachment protein. Results indicate that p16 is a BRV-specific nonstructural protein that is not required for virus infection in cell culture and is not involved in viral cell attachment. In conjunction with previous studies of the BRV S1, S2, and S3 genome segments, the current results indicate that, unlike all other orthoreoviruses, BRV does not encode a cell attachment protein in its S-class genome segments. Furthermore, cell binding and infectivity studies suggested BRV may not utilize a functional homolog of the prototypical reovirus sigma1/sigmaC cell receptor-binding protein to mediate endocytic uptake by cells.
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- Sandra Dawe
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, B3H 4H7, Canada
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