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Townsend JA, Fapohunda O, Wang Z, Pham H, Taylor MT, Kloss B, Ho Park S, Opella S, Aspinwall CA, Marty MT. Differences in Oligomerization of the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein, Poliovirus VP4, and HIV Vpu. Biochemistry 2024; 63:241-250. [PMID: 38216552 PMCID: PMC10872257 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
Abstract
Viroporins constitute a class of viral membrane proteins with diverse roles in the viral life cycle. They can self-assemble and form pores within the bilayer that transport substrates, such as ions and genetic material, that are critical to the viral infection cycle. However, there is little known about the oligomeric state of most viroporins. Here, we use native mass spectrometry in detergent micelles to uncover the patterns of oligomerization of the full-length SARS-CoV-2 envelope (E) protein, poliovirus VP4, and HIV Vpu. Our data suggest that the E protein is a specific dimer, VP4 is exclusively monomeric, and Vpu assembles into a polydisperse mixture of oligomers under these conditions. Overall, these results revealed the diversity in the oligomerization of viroporins, which has implications for the mechanisms of their biological functions as well as their potential as therapeutic targets.
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- Julia A. Townsend
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure, New York Structural Biology Center, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Andino R, Kirkegaard K, Macadam A, Racaniello VR, Rosenfeld AB. The Picornaviridae Family: Knowledge Gaps, Animal Models, Countermeasures, and Prototype Pathogens. J Infect Dis 2023; 228:S427-S445. [PMID: 37849401 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiac426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2023] Open
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Picornaviruses are nonenveloped particles with a single-stranded RNA genome of positive polarity. This virus family includes poliovirus, hepatitis A virus, rhinoviruses, and Coxsackieviruses. Picornaviruses are common human pathogens, and infection can result in a spectrum of serious illnesses, including acute flaccid myelitis, severe respiratory complications, and hand-foot-mouth disease. Despite research on poliovirus establishing many fundamental principles of RNA virus biology and the first transgenic animal model of disease for infection by a human virus, picornaviruses are understudied. Existing knowledge gaps include, identification of molecules required for virus entry, understanding cellular and humoral immune responses elicited during virus infection, and establishment of immune-competent animal models of virus pathogenesis. Such knowledge is necessary for development of pan-picornavirus countermeasures. Defining enterovirus A71 and D68, human rhinovirus C, and echoviruses 29 as prototype pathogens of this virus family may provide insight into picornavirus biology needed to establish public health strategies necessary for pandemic preparedness.
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- Raul Andino
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, South Mimms, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
- Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
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Townsend JA, Fapohunda O, Wang Z, Pham H, Taylor MT, Kloss B, Park SH, Opella S, Aspinwall CA, Marty MT. Differences in Oligomerization of the SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein, Poliovirus VP4, and HIV Vpu. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.08.18.553902. [PMID: 37645758 PMCID: PMC10462163 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.18.553902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Viroporins constitute a class of viral membrane proteins with diverse roles in the viral life cycle. They can self-assemble and form pores within the bilayer that transport substrates, such as ions and genetic material, that are critical to the viral infection cycle. However, there is little known about the oligomeric state of most viroporins. Here, we use native mass spectrometry (MS) in detergent micelles to uncover the patterns of oligomerization of the full-length SARS-CoV-2 envelope (E) protein, poliovirus VP4, and HIV Vpu. Our data suggest that the E protein is a specific dimer, VP4 is exclusively monomeric, and Vpu assembles into a polydisperse mixture of oligomers under these conditions. Overall, these results revealed the diversity in the oligomerization of viroporins, which has implications for mechanisms of their biological functions as well as their potential as therapeutic targets.
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- Julia A. Townsend
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- New York Consortium on Membrane Protein Structure, New York Structural Biology Center, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Bio5 Institute, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Hadfield TE, Imrie F, Merritt A, Birchall K, Deane CM. Incorporating Target-Specific Pharmacophoric Information into Deep Generative Models for Fragment Elaboration. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:2280-2292. [PMID: 35499971 PMCID: PMC9131447 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c01311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
Abstract
Despite recent interest in deep generative models for scaffold elaboration, their applicability to fragment-to-lead campaigns has so far been limited. This is primarily due to their inability to account for local protein structure or a user's design hypothesis. We propose a novel method for fragment elaboration, STRIFE, that overcomes these issues. STRIFE takes as input fragment hotspot maps (FHMs) extracted from a protein target and processes them to provide meaningful and interpretable structural information to its generative model, which in turn is able to rapidly generate elaborations with complementary pharmacophores to the protein. In a large-scale evaluation, STRIFE outperforms existing, structure-unaware, fragment elaboration methods in proposing highly ligand-efficient elaborations. In addition to automatically extracting pharmacophoric information from a protein target's FHM, STRIFE optionally allows the user to specify their own design hypotheses.
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- Thomas E Hadfield
- Oxford Protein Informatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Protein Informatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom
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- LifeArc, SBC Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage SG1 2FX, United Kingdom
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- LifeArc, SBC Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage SG1 2FX, United Kingdom
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- Oxford Protein Informatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom
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Kobuviruses are an unusual and poorly characterized genus within the picornavirus family and can cause gastrointestinal enteric disease in humans, livestock, and pets. The human kobuvirus Aichi virus (AiV) can cause severe gastroenteritis and deaths in children below the age of 5 years; however, this is a very rare occurrence. During the assembly of most picornaviruses (e.g., poliovirus, rhinovirus, and foot-and-mouth disease virus), the capsid precursor protein VP0 is cleaved into VP4 and VP2. However, kobuviruses retain an uncleaved VP0. From studies with other picornaviruses, it is known that VP4 performs the essential function of pore formation in membranes, which facilitates transfer of the viral genome across the endosomal membrane and into the cytoplasm for replication. Here, we employ genome exposure and membrane interaction assays to demonstrate that pH plays a critical role in AiV uncoating and membrane interactions. We demonstrate that incubation at low pH alters the exposure of hydrophobic residues within the capsid, enhances genome exposure, and enhances permeabilization of model membranes. Furthermore, using peptides we demonstrate that the N terminus of VP0 mediates membrane pore formation in model membranes, indicating that this plays an analogous function to VP4. IMPORTANCE To initiate infection, viruses must enter a host cell and deliver their genome into the appropriate location. The picornavirus family of small nonenveloped RNA viruses includes significant human and animal pathogens and is also a model to understand the process of cell entry. Most picornavirus capsids contain the internal protein VP4, generated from cleavage of a VP0 precursor. During entry, VP4 is released from the capsid. In enteroviruses this forms a membrane pore, which facilitates genome release into the cytoplasm. Due to high levels of sequence similarity, it is expected to play the same role for other picornaviruses. Some picornaviruses, such as Aichi virus, retain an intact VP0, and it is unknown how these viruses rearrange their capsids and induce membrane permeability in the absence of VP4. Here, we have used Aichi virus as a model VP0 virus to test for conservation of function between VP0 and VP4. This could enhance understanding of pore function and lead to development of novel therapeutic agents that block entry.
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Gunaseelan S, Ariffin MZ, Khanna S, Ooi MH, Perera D, Chu JJH, Chua JJE. Pharmacological perturbation of CXCL1 signaling alleviates neuropathogenesis in a model of HEVA71 infection. Nat Commun 2022; 13:890. [PMID: 35173169 PMCID: PMC8850555 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28533-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) caused by Human Enterovirus A71 (HEVA71) infection is typically a benign infection. However, in minority of cases, children can develop severe neuropathology that culminate in fatality. Approximately 36.9% of HEVA71-related hospitalizations develop neurological complications, of which 10.5% are fatal. Yet, the mechanism by which HEVA71 induces these neurological deficits remain unclear. Here, we show that HEVA71-infected astrocytes release CXCL1 which supports viral replication in neurons by activating the CXCR2 receptor-associated ERK1/2 signaling pathway. Elevated CXCL1 levels correlates with disease severity in a HEVA71-infected mice model. In humans infected with HEVA71, high CXCL1 levels are only present in patients presenting neurological complications. CXCL1 release is specifically triggered by VP4 synthesis in HEVA71-infected astrocytes, which then acts via its receptor CXCR2 to enhance viral replication in neurons. Perturbing CXCL1 signaling or VP4 myristylation strongly attenuates viral replication. Treatment with AZD5069, a CXCL1-specific competitor, improves survival and lessens disease severity in infected animals. Collectively, these results highlight the CXCL1-CXCR2 signaling pathway as a potential target against HFMD neuropathogenesis.
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- Saravanan Gunaseelan
- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117597, Singapore
- LSI Neurobiology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- LSI Neurobiology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117456, Singapore
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- Department of Paediatrics, Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117597, Singapore.
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138673, Singapore.
- Infectious Disease Translational Research Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117597, Singapore.
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- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
- LSI Neurobiology Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117456, Singapore.
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138673, Singapore.
- Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
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Agoni C, Salifu EY, Enslin G, Kwofie SK, Soliman ME. Dual-Inhibition of Human N-Myristoyltransferase Subtypes Halts Common Cold Pathogenesis: Atomistic Perspectives from the Case of IMP-1088. Chem Biodivers 2022; 19:e202100748. [PMID: 34936193 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202100748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
The pharmacological inhibition of human N-myristoyltransferase (HsNMT) has emerged as an efficient strategy to completely prevent the replication process of rhinoviruses, a potential treatment for the common cold. This was corroborated by the recent discovery of compound IMP-1088, a novel inhibitor that demonstrated a dual-inhibitory activity against the two HsNMT subtypes 1 and 2 without inducing cytotoxicity. However, the molecular and structural basis for the dual-inhibitory potential of IMP-1088 has not been investigated. As such, we employ molecular modelling techniques to resolve the structural mechanisms that account for the dual-inhibitory prowess of IMP-1088. Sequence and nanosecond-based analyses identified Tyr296, Phe190, Tyr420, Leu453, Gln496, Val181, Leu474, Glu182, and Asn246 as residues common within the binding pockets of both HsNMT1 and HsNMT2 subtypes whose consistent interactions with IMP-1088 underpin the basis for its dual inhibitory potency. Nano-second-based assessment of interaction dynamics revealed that Tyr296 consistently elicited high-affinity π-π stacked interaction with IMP-1088, thus further highlighting its cruciality corroborating previous report. An exploration of resulting structural changes upon IMP-1088 binding further revealed a characteristic impeding of residue fluctuations, structural compactness, and a consequential burial of crucial hydrophobic residues, features required for HsNMT1/2 functionality. Findings present essential structural perspectives that augment previous experimental efforts and could also advance drug development for treating respiratory tract infections, especially those mediated by rhinoviruses.
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- Clement Agoni
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Arcadia Campus, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Molecular Bio-computation and Drug Design Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, 4001, South Africa
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Arcadia Campus, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering Sciences, College of Basic & Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, PMB LG 77, Legon, Accra, Ghana.,West African Center for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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- Molecular Bio-computation and Drug Design Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, 4001, South Africa
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Huaman JL, Pacioni C, Sarker S, Doyle M, Forsyth DM, Pople A, Carvalho TG, Helbig KJ. Novel Picornavirus Detected in Wild Deer: Identification, Genomic Characterisation, and Prevalence in Australia. Viruses 2021; 13:v13122412. [PMID: 34960681 PMCID: PMC8706930 DOI: 10.3390/v13122412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The use of high-throughput sequencing has facilitated virus discovery in wild animals and helped determine their potential threat to humans and other animals. We report the complete genome sequence of a novel picornavirus identified by next-generation sequencing in faeces from Australian fallow deer. Genomic analysis revealed that this virus possesses a typical picornavirus-like genomic organisation of 7554 nt with a single open reading frame (ORF) encoding a polyprotein of 2225 amino acids. Based on the amino acid identity comparison and phylogenetic analysis of the P1, 2C, 3CD, and VP1 regions, this novel picornavirus was closely related to but distinct from known bopiviruses detected to date. This finding suggests that deer/bopivirus could belong to a novel species within the genus Bopivirus, tentatively designated as "Bopivirus C". Epidemiological investigation of 91 deer (71 fallow, 14 sambar and 6 red deer) and 23 cattle faecal samples showed that six fallow deer and one red deer (overall prevalence 7.7%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.8-15.0%) tested positive, but deer/bopivirus was undetectable in sambar deer and cattle. In addition, phylogenetic and sequence analyses indicate that the same genotype is circulating in south-eastern Australia. To our knowledge, this study reports for the first time a deer-origin bopivirus and the presence of a member of genus Bopivirus in Australia. Further epidemiological and molecular studies are needed to investigate the geographic distribution and pathogenic potential of this novel Bopivirus species in other domestic and wild animal species.
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- Jose L. Huaman
- Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; (J.L.H.); (S.S.); (T.G.C.)
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- Department of Environment, Land, Water, and Planning, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Heidelberg, VIC 3084, Australia;
- Environmental and Conservation Sciences, School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; (J.L.H.); (S.S.); (T.G.C.)
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- South East Local Land Services, Bega, NSW 2550, Australia;
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- Vertebrate Pest Research Unit, Department of Primary Industries, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia;
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- Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Invasive Plants & Animals Research, Biosecurity Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, Brisbane, QLD 4102, Australia;
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; (J.L.H.); (S.S.); (T.G.C.)
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia; (J.L.H.); (S.S.); (T.G.C.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +61-3-9479-6650
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László Z, Pankovics P, Reuter G, Cságola A, Bálint Á, Albert M, Boros Á. Multiple Types of Novel Enteric Bopiviruses ( Picornaviridae) with the Possibility of Interspecies Transmission Identified from Cloven-Hoofed Domestic Livestock (Ovine, Caprine and Bovine) in Hungary. Viruses 2021; 13:v13010066. [PMID: 33418939 PMCID: PMC7825084 DOI: 10.3390/v13010066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2020] [Revised: 01/01/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Most picornaviruses of the family Picornaviridae are relatively well known, but there are certain “neglected” genera like Bopivirus, containing a single uncharacterised sequence (bopivirus A1, KM589358) with very limited background information. In this study, three novel picornaviruses provisionally called ovipi-, gopi- and bopivirus/Hun (MW298057-MW298059) from enteric samples of asymptomatic ovine, caprine and bovine respectively, were determined using RT-PCR and dye-terminator sequencing techniques. These monophyletic viruses share the same type II-like IRES, NPGP-type 2A, similar genome layout (4-3-4) and cre-localisations. Culture attempts of the study viruses, using six different cell lines, yielded no evidence of viral growth in vitro. Genomic and phylogenetic analyses show that bopivirus/Hun of bovine belongs to the species Bopivirus A, while the closely related ovine-origin ovipi- and caprine-origin gopivirus could belong to a novel species “Bopivirus B” in the genus Bopivirus. Epidemiological investigation of N = 269 faecal samples of livestock (ovine, caprine, bovine, swine and rabbit) from different farms in Hungary showed that bopiviruses were most prevalent among <12-month-old ovine, caprine and bovine, but undetectable in swine and rabbit. VP1 capsid-based phylogenetic analyses revealed the presence of multiple lineages/genotypes, including closely related ovine/caprine strains, suggesting the possibility of ovine–caprine interspecies transmission of certain bopiviruses.
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- Zoltán László
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary; (Z.L.); (P.P.); (G.R.)
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary; (Z.L.); (P.P.); (G.R.)
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary; (Z.L.); (P.P.); (G.R.)
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- Ceva Phylaxia Ltd., H-1107 Budapest, Hungary; (A.C.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Virology, National Food Chain Safety Office Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate, H-1143 Budapest, Hungary;
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- Ceva Phylaxia Ltd., H-1107 Budapest, Hungary; (A.C.); (M.A.)
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School, University of Pécs, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary; (Z.L.); (P.P.); (G.R.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +36-72-536-251
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Cao J, Qu M, Liu H, Wan X, Li F, Hou A, Zhou Y, Sun B, Cai L, Su W, Jiang C. Myristoylation of EV71 VP4 is Essential for Infectivity and Interaction with Membrane Structure. Virol Sin 2020; 35:599-613. [PMID: 32399947 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-020-00226-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
The Enterovirus 71 (EV71) VP4 is co-translationally linked to myristic acid at its amino-terminal glycine residue. However, the role of this myristoylation in the EV71 life cycle remains largely unknown. To investigate this issue, we developed a myristoylation-deficient virus and reporter (luciferase) pseudovirus with a Gly-to-Ala mutation (G2A) on EV71 VP4. When transfecting the EV71-G2A genome encoding plasmid in cells, the loss of myristoylation on VP4 did not affect the expression of viral proteins and the virus morphology, however, it did significantly influence viral infectivity. Further, in myristoylation-deficient reporter pseudovirus-infected cells, the luciferase activity and viral genome RNA decreased significantly as compared to that of wild type virus; however, cytopathic effect and viral capsid proteins were not detected in myristoylation-deficient virus-infected cells. Also, although myristoylation-deficient viral RNA and proteins were detected in the second blind passage of infection, they were much fewer in number compared to that of the wild type virus. The replication of genomic RNA and negative-strand viral RNA were both blocked in myristoylation-deficient viruses, suggesting that myristoylation affects viral genome RNA release from capsid to cytoplasm. Besides, loss of myristoylation on VP4 altered the distribution of VP4-green fluorescent protein protein, which disappeared from the membrane structure fraction. Finally, a liposome leakage assay showed that EV71 myristoylation mediates the permeability of the model membrane. Hence, the amino-terminal myristoylation of VP4 is pivotal to EV71 infection and capsid-membrane structure interaction. This study provides novel molecular mechanisms regarding EV71 infection and potential molecular targets for antiviral drug design.
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- Jiaming Cao
- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. .,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
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- National Engineering Laboratory for AIDS Vaccine, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China. .,Key Laboratory for Molecular Enzymology and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China.
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Corbic Ramljak I, Stanger J, Real-Hohn A, Dreier D, Wimmer L, Redlberger-Fritz M, Fischl W, Klingel K, Mihovilovic MD, Blaas D, Kowalski H. Cellular N-myristoyltransferases play a crucial picornavirus genus-specific role in viral assembly, virion maturation, and infectivity. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007203. [PMID: 30080883 PMCID: PMC6089459 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2018] [Revised: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 07/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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In nearly all picornaviruses the precursor of the smallest capsid protein VP4 undergoes co-translational N-terminal myristoylation by host cell N-myristoyltransferases (NMTs). Curtailing this modification by mutation of the myristoylation signal in poliovirus has been shown to result in severe assembly defects and very little, if any, progeny virus production. Avoiding possible pleiotropic effects of such mutations, we here used pharmacological abrogation of myristoylation with the NMT inhibitor DDD85646, a pyrazole sulfonamide originally developed against trypanosomal NMT. Infection of HeLa cells with coxsackievirus B3 in the presence of this drug decreased VP0 acylation at least 100-fold, resulting in a defect both early and late in virus morphogenesis, which diminishes the yield of viral progeny by about 90%. Virus particles still produced consisted mainly of provirions containing RNA and uncleaved VP0 and, to a substantially lesser extent, of mature virions with cleaved VP0. This indicates an important role of myristoylation in the viral maturation cleavage. By electron microscopy, these RNA-filled particles were indistinguishable from virus produced under control conditions. Nevertheless, their specific infectivity decreased by about five hundred fold. Since host cell-attachment was not markedly impaired, their defect must lie in the inability to transfer their genomic RNA into the cytosol, likely at the level of endosomal pore formation. Strikingly, neither parechoviruses nor kobuviruses are affected by DDD85646, which appears to correlate with their native capsid containing only unprocessed VP0. Individual knockout of the genes encoding the two human NMT isozymes in haploid HAP1 cells further demonstrated the pivotal role for HsNMT1, with little contribution by HsNMT2, in the virus replication cycle. Our results also indicate that inhibition of NMT can possibly be exploited for controlling the infection by a wide spectrum of picornaviruses. Picornaviruses are important human and animal pathogens. Protective vaccines are only available against very few representatives. Furthermore, antiviral drugs have not made it to the market because of serious side effects and viral mutational escape. We here show that pharmacological inhibition of cellular myristoyltransferases severely decreased myristoylation of enteroviral structural proteins as exemplified by coxsackievirus B3, a prominent pathogen causing virus-induced acute and chronic heart disease. The drug DDD85646 substantially diminished virus yield and almost abolished the infectivity of the residual progeny virus. It is highly effective against several other picornaviruses, except those two included in our study that naturally do not process VP0. Our work provides new insight into the role of myristoylation in the life cycle of picornaviruses and identifies the responsible cellular enzyme as a promising candidate for antiviral therapy.
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- Irena Corbic Ramljak
- Center for Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Haplogen GmbH, Vienna, Campus Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria
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- Cardiopathology, Institute for Pathology and Neuropathology, University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Center for Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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- Center for Medical Biochemistry, Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria
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Mousnier A, Bell AS, Swieboda DP, Morales-Sanfrutos J, Pérez-Dorado I, Brannigan JA, Newman J, Ritzefeld M, Hutton JA, Guedán A, Asfor AS, Robinson SW, Hopkins-Navratilova I, Wilkinson AJ, Johnston SL, Leatherbarrow RJ, Tuthill TJ, Solari R, Tate EW. Fragment-derived inhibitors of human N-myristoyltransferase block capsid assembly and replication of the common cold virus. Nat Chem 2018; 10:599-606. [PMID: 29760414 PMCID: PMC6015761 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0039-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Rhinoviruses (RVs) are the pathogens most often responsible for the common cold, and are a frequent cause of exacerbations in asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. Here we report the discovery of IMP-1088, a picomolar dual inhibitor of the human N-myristoyltransferases NMT1 and NMT2, and use it to demonstrate that pharmacological inhibition of host-cell N-myristoylation rapidly and completely prevents rhinoviral replication without inducing cytotoxicity. The identification of cooperative binding between weak-binding fragments led to rapid inhibitor optimization through fragment reconstruction, structure-guided fragment linking and conformational control over linker geometry. We show that inhibition of the co-translational myristoylation of a specific virus-encoded protein (VP0) by IMP-1088 potently blocks a key step in viral capsid assembly, to deliver a low nanomolar antiviral activity against multiple RV strains, poliovirus and foot and-mouth disease virus, and protection of cells against virus-induced killing, highlighting the potential of host myristoylation as a drug target in picornaviral infections.
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- Aurélie Mousnier
- National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Kinetic Discovery Limited, Dundee, UK
- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
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- Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
- Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK.
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Newman J, Asfor AS, Berryman S, Jackson T, Curry S, Tuthill TJ. The Cellular Chaperone Heat Shock Protein 90 Is Required for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Capsid Precursor Processing and Assembly of Capsid Pentamers. J Virol 2018; 92:e01415-17. [PMID: 29212943 PMCID: PMC5809743 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01415-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Productive picornavirus infection requires the hijacking of host cell pathways to aid with the different stages of virus entry, synthesis of the viral polyprotein, and viral genome replication. Many picornaviruses, including foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), assemble capsids via the multimerization of several copies of a single capsid precursor protein into a pentameric subunit which further encapsidates the RNA. Pentamer formation is preceded by co- and posttranslational modification of the capsid precursor (P1-2A) by viral and cellular enzymes and the subsequent rearrangement of P1-2A into a structure amenable to pentamer formation. We have developed a cell-free system to study FMDV pentamer assembly using recombinantly expressed FMDV capsid precursor and 3C protease. Using this assay, we have shown that two structurally different inhibitors of the cellular chaperone heat shock protein 90 (hsp90) impeded FMDV capsid precursor processing and subsequent pentamer formation. Treatment of FMDV permissive cells with the hsp90 inhibitor prior to infection reduced the endpoint titer by more than 10-fold while not affecting the activity of a subgenomic replicon, indicating that translation and replication of viral RNA were unaffected by the drug.IMPORTANCE FMDV of the Picornaviridae family is a pathogen of huge economic importance to the livestock industry due to its effect on the restriction of livestock movement and necessary control measures required following an outbreak. The study of FMDV capsid assembly, and picornavirus capsid assembly more generally, has tended to be focused upon the formation of capsids from pentameric intermediates or the immediate cotranslational modification of the capsid precursor protein. Here, we describe a system to analyze the early stages of FMDV pentameric capsid intermediate assembly and demonstrate a novel requirement for the cellular chaperone hsp90 in the formation of these pentameric intermediates. We show the added complexity involved for this process to occur, which could be the basis for a novel antiviral control mechanism for FMDV.
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- Joseph Newman
- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- The Pirbright Institute, Pirbright, Surrey, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Cryo-EM study of slow bee paralysis virus at low pH reveals iflavirus genome release mechanism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:598-603. [PMID: 28053231 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1616562114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Viruses from the family Iflaviridae are insect pathogens. Many of them, including slow bee paralysis virus (SBPV), cause lethal diseases in honeybees and bumblebees, resulting in agricultural losses. Iflaviruses have nonenveloped icosahedral virions containing single-stranded RNA genomes. However, their genome release mechanism is unknown. Here, we show that low pH promotes SBPV genome release, indicating that the virus may use endosomes to enter host cells. We used cryo-EM to study a heterogeneous population of SBPV virions at pH 5.5. We determined the structures of SBPV particles before and after genome release to resolutions of 3.3 and 3.4 Å, respectively. The capsids of SBPV virions in low pH are not expanded. Thus, SBPV does not appear to form "altered" particles with pores in their capsids before genome release, as is the case in many related picornaviruses. The egress of the genome from SBPV virions is associated with a loss of interpentamer contacts mediated by N-terminal arms of VP2 capsid proteins, which result in the expansion of the capsid. Pores that are 7 Å in diameter form around icosahedral threefold symmetry axes. We speculate that they serve as channels for the genome release. Our findings provide an atomic-level characterization of the genome release mechanism of iflaviruses.
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Panjwani A, Asfor AS, Tuthill TJ. The conserved N-terminus of human rhinovirus capsid protein VP4 contains membrane pore-forming activity and is a target for neutralizing antibodies. J Gen Virol 2016; 97:3238-3242. [PMID: 27902347 PMCID: PMC5203672 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Human rhinovirus is the causative agent of the common cold and belongs to the non-enveloped picornavirus family. A trigger such as receptor binding or low pH initiates conformational changes in the capsid that allow the virus to attach to membranes and form a pore for the translocation of viral RNA into the cytoplasm. We previously showed that recombinant capsid protein VP4 was able to form membrane pores. In this study, we show the N-terminus but not C-terminus of VP4 formed pores with properties similar to full-length VP4 and consistent with the size required for transfer of RNA. Sera against the N-terminus but not C-terminus of VP4 were shown to neutralize virus infectivity. Together, this suggests that the N-terminus of VP4 is responsible for membrane activity. This study contributes to an improved understanding of the mechanisms for involvement of VP4 in entry and its potential as an antiviral target.
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- Anusha Panjwani
- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking GU24 0NF, UK
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking GU24 0NF, UK
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- The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, Woking GU24 0NF, UK
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Inhibition of enterovirus VP4 myristoylation is a potential antiviral strategy for hand, foot and mouth disease. Antiviral Res 2016; 133:191-5. [PMID: 27520386 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2016.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 08/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) can result from infections by a plethora of human enteroviruses of the species Enterovirus A and B. These infections are highly contagious, resulting in regular outbreaks especially in the Asia-Pacific Region in the recent decade. Although this disease is generally a childhood affliction which manifests as a mild, febrile illness accompanied by the vesicles on the hands, feet and mouth, permanent morbidity or even fatality can result from severe forms of the disease in a subset of the infected patients. The N-terminal myristoylation signal (MGXXXS) of viral capsid protein VP4, one of the four viral structural proteins, is an extremely well conserved feature of enteroviruses, a potential antiviral target that may yield broad-spectrum inhibitors of HFMD. In this study, we have confirmed through the use of small interfering RNAs, human N-myristoyltransferase 1 plays an integral role in human Enterovirus 71 replication. Subsequent studies by inhibition of myristoylation using different myristic acid analogues elicited differential effects on the virus replication in human rhabdomyosarcoma cells. In particular, 2-hydroxymyristic acid specifically inhibited the cleavage between VP4 and VP2, part of the virion maturation process required to ensure infectivity of progeny virions while 4-oxatetradecanoic acid reduced the synthesis of viral RNA. These findings suggest that the requirement of a myristate moiety in viral structural protein precursor cleavage can serve as a viable antiviral target for further research.
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The VP4 peptide of hepatitis A virus ruptures membranes through formation of discrete pores. J Virol 2014; 88:12409-21. [PMID: 25122794 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01896-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED Membrane-active peptides, components of capsid structural proteins, assist viruses in overcoming the host membrane barrier in the initial stages of infection. Several such peptides have been identified, and their roles in membrane fusion or disruption have been characterized through biophysical studies. In several members of the Picornaviridae family, the role of the VP4 structural peptide in cellular-membrane penetration is well established. However, there is not much information on the membrane-penetrating capsid components of hepatitis A virus (HAV), an unusual member of this family. The VP4 peptide of HAV differs from its analogues in other picornaviruses in being significantly shorter in length and in lacking a signal for myristoylation, thought to be a critical requisite for VP4-mediated membrane penetration. Here we report, for the first time, that the atypical VP4 in HAV contains significant membrane-penetrating activity. Using a combination of biophysical assays and molecular dynamics simulation studies, we show that VP4 integrates into membrane vesicles through its N-terminal region to finally form discrete pores of 5- to 9-nm diameter, which induces leakage in the vesicles without altering their overall size or shape. We further demonstrate that the membrane activity of VP4 is specific toward vesicles mimicking the lipid content of late endosomes at acidic pH. Taken together, our data indicate that VP4 might be essential for the penetration of host endosomal membranes and release of the viral genome during HAV entry. IMPORTANCE Hepatitis A virus causes acute hepatitis in humans through the fecal-oral route and is particularly prevalent in underdeveloped regions with poor hygienic conditions. Although a vaccine for HAV exists, its high cost makes it unsuitable for universal application in developing countries. Studies on host-virus interaction for HAV have been hampered due to a lack of starting material, since the virus is extremely slow growing in culture. Among the unknown aspects of the HAV life cycle is its manner of host membrane penetration, which is one of the most important initial steps in viral infection. Here, we present data to suggest that a small peptide, VP4, a component of the HAV structural polyprotein, might be essential in helping the viral genome cross cell membranes during entry. It is hoped that this work might help in elucidating the manner of initial host cell interaction by HAV.
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Role of the myristoylation site in expressing exogenous functional proteins in coxsackieviral vector. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2012; 76:1173-6. [PMID: 22790942 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.120045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We generated a cardiotropic replication-competent chimeric coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) to express alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH). Although exogenously expressed ADH was found by Western blot analysis, its enzyme function was repressed. To define the factor that inhibits the enzymatic function of ADH, we introduced a site-directed mutation at the second amino acid (MGAQEF···) of the CVB3 VP0 capsid protein, effectively changing glycine to alanine. This glycine is known to be a myristoylation site during viral capsid protein maturation in infected cells. In contrast to the unmodified virus, ADH expression and enzymatic function were readily detectable in the mutated rCVB3-ADH (G2A) virus. While expression of ADH required mutation of the CVB3 VP0 myristoylation site for proper function, another chimeric virus that expresses green fluorescent protein (rCVB3-GFP (G or A)) worked independently of the myristoylation site. Indeed, infected HeLa cells displayed GFP under a fluorescent microscope. These results indicate that the myristoylation site in the VP0 capsid protein inhibited the expression of enzymatically active ADH but not GFP. VP0 myristoylation is dispensable for chimeric CVB3 virus replication.
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Human rhinoviruses (HRVs) are a major cause of the common cold. The more than one hundred serotypes, divided into species HRV-A and HRV-B, either bind intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (major group viruses) or members of the low-density lipoprotein receptor (minor group viruses) for cell entry. Some major group HRVs can also access the host cell via heparan sulphate proteoglycans. The cell attachment protein(s) of the recently discovered phylogenetic clade HRV-C is unknown. The respective receptors direct virus uptake via clathrin-dependent or independent endocytosis or via macropinocytosis. Triggered by ICAM-1 and/or the low pH environment in endosomes the virions undergo conformational alterations giving rise to hydrophobic subviral particles. These are handed over from the receptors to the endosomal membrane. According to the current view, the RNA genome is released through an opening at one of the fivefold axes of the icosahedral capsid and crosses the membrane through a pore presumably formed by viral proteins. Alternatively, the membrane may be ruptured allowing subviral particles and RNA to enter the cytosol. Whether a channel is formed or the membrane is disrupted most probably depends on the respective HRV receptor.
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- Renate Fuchs
- Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Like other RNA viruses, coxsackievirus B5 (CVB5) exists as circulating heterogeneous populations of genetic variants. In this study, we present the reconstruction and characterization of a probable ancestral virion of CVB5. Phylogenetic analyses based on capsid protein-encoding regions (the VP1 gene of 41 clinical isolates and the entire P1 region of eight clinical isolates) of CVB5 revealed two major cocirculating lineages. Ancestral capsid sequences were inferred from sequences of these contemporary CVB5 isolates by using maximum likelihood methods. By using Bayesian phylodynamic analysis, the inferred VP1 ancestral sequence dated back to 1854 (1807 to 1898). In order to study the properties of the putative ancestral capsid, the entire ancestral P1 sequence was synthesized de novo and inserted into the replicative backbone of an infectious CVB5 cDNA clone. Characterization of the recombinant virus in cell culture showed that fully functional infectious virus particles were assembled and that these viruses displayed properties similar to those of modern isolates in terms of receptor preferences, plaque phenotypes, growth characteristics, and cell tropism. This is the first report describing the resurrection and characterization of a picornavirus with a putative ancestral capsid. Our approach, including a phylogenetics-based reconstruction of viral predecessors, could serve as a starting point for experimental studies of viral evolution and might also provide an alternative strategy for the development of vaccines.
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Lee SC, Shaw BD. A novel interaction between N-myristoylation and the 26S proteasome during cell morphogenesis. Mol Microbiol 2007; 63:1039-53. [PMID: 17238925 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05575.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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N-myristoylation is a protein lipidation event in which myristate is covalently linked to the N-terminal glycine of target proteins. In Aspergillus nidulans, the N-myristoylation deficient swoF1 mutant was previously shown to lose cell polarity during the early morphogenic event of germ tube emergence. To further investigate this defect, we mutagenized swoF1 and recovered six partial suppressors designated ssf (suppressor of swoF1). The secondary mutations enabled swoF1 to partially bypass its growth defect. We characterized a frame-shift mutation in ssfA1, which encodes an alpha subunit of the 20S core particle of the 26S proteasome. Fewer ubiquitinated proteins accumulated in the swoF1 mutant compared with wild-type. In contrast, the swoF1;ssfA1 mutant accumulated higher levels of ubiquitinated proteins than wild-type. The swoF1 mutant was bypassed in the presence of the proteasome inhibitor, MG132. These results demonstrate that the swoF1 phenotype was caused, at least in part, by an increased activity of 26S proteasome-dependent proteolysis and suppression occurred by attenuating the 26S proteasome activity. This is the first report linking N-myristoylation and ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent proteolysis during morphogenesis.
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- Soo Chan Lee
- Program for the Biology of Filamentous Fungi, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, 2132 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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Selvakumar P, Lakshmikuttyamma A, Shrivastav A, Das SB, Dimmock JR, Sharma RK. Potential role of N-myristoyltransferase in cancer. Prog Lipid Res 2007; 46:1-36. [PMID: 16846646 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2006.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of malignant death, and better preventive strategies are needed. The treatment of colonic cancer remains difficult because of the lack of effective chemotherapeutic agents; therefore it is important to continue to search for cellular functions that can be disrupted by chemotherapeutic drugs resulting in the inhibition of the development and progression of cancer. The current knowledge of the modification of proteins by myristoylation involving myristoyl-CoA: protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) is in its infancy. This process is involved in the pathogenesis of cancer. We have reported for the first time that NMT activity and protein expression were higher in human colorectal cancer, gallbladder carcinoma and brain tumors. In addition, an increase in NMT activity appeared at an early stage in colonic carcinogenesis. It is conceivable therefore that NMT can be used as a potential marker for the early detection of cancer. These observations lead to the possibility of developing NMT specific inhibitors, which may be therapeutically useful. We proposed that HSC70 and/or enolase could be used as an anticancer therapeutic target. This review summarized the status of NMT in cancer which has been carried in our laboratory.
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- Ponniah Selvakumar
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, and Health Research Division, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, University of Saskatchewan, 20 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada S7N 4H4
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Rudnick DA, McWherter CA, Gokel GW, Gordon JI. MyristoylCoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase. ADVANCES IN ENZYMOLOGY AND RELATED AREAS OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 67:375-430. [PMID: 8322618 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123133.ch5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- D A Rudnick
- Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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Ducker CE, Upson JJ, French KJ, Smith CD. Two N-myristoyltransferase isozymes play unique roles in protein myristoylation, proliferation, and apoptosis. Mol Cancer Res 2005; 3:463-76. [PMID: 16123142 PMCID: PMC2908404 DOI: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-05-0037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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N-myristoyltransferases (NMT) add myristate to the NH(2) termini of certain proteins, thereby regulating their localization and/or biological function. Using RNA interference, this study functionally characterizes the two NMT isozymes in human cells. Unique small interfering RNAs (siRNA) for each isozyme were designed and shown to decrease NMT1 or NMT2 protein levels by at least 90%. Ablation of NMT1 inhibited cell replication associated with a loss of activation of c-Src and its target FAK as well as reduction of signaling through the c-Raf/mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway. Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling assays showed that depletion of either NMT isozyme induced apoptosis, with NMT2 having a 2.5-fold greater effect than NMT1. Western blot analyses revealed that loss of NMT2 shifted the expression of the BCL family of proteins toward apoptosis. Finally, intratumoral injection of siRNA for NMT1 or for both NMT1 and NMT2 inhibited tumor growth in vivo, whereas the same treatment with siRNA for NMT2 or negative control siRNA did not. Overall, the data indicate that NMT1 and NMT2 have only partially overlapping functions and that NMT1 is critical for tumor cell proliferation.
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- Charles E. Ducker
- Apogee Biotechnology Corporation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Apogee Biotechnology Corporation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Apogee Biotechnology Corporation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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- Apogee Biotechnology Corporation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pharmacology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Harkins S, Cornell CT, Whitton JL. Analysis of translational initiation in coxsackievirus B3 suggests an alternative explanation for the high frequency of R+4 in the eukaryotic consensus motif. J Virol 2005; 79:987-96. [PMID: 15613327 PMCID: PMC538586 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.79.2.987-996.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Translational initiation of most eukaryotic mRNAs occurs when a preinitiation complex binds to the 5' cap, scans the mRNA, and selects a particular AUG codon as the initiation site. Selection of the correct initiation codon relies, in part, on its flanking residues; in mammalian cells, the core of the "Kozak" consensus is R-3CCAUGG+4 (R=purine; the A residue is designated position +1). The R-3 is considered the most important flanking residue, followed by G+4. Picornaviral mRNAs differ from most cellular mRNAs in several ways; they are uncapped, and they contain an internal ribosome entry site that allows the ribosome to bind near the initiation codon. The initiation codon of coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) is flanked by both R-3 and G+4 (AAAATGG). Here, we report the construction of full-length CVB3 genomes that vary at these two positions, and we evaluate the effects of these variant sequences in vitro, in tissue culture cells, and in vivo. A virus with an A-->C transversion at position -3 replicates as well as wild-type CVB3, both in tissue culture and in vivo. This virus is highly pathogenic, and its sequence is stable throughout the course of an in vivo infection. Furthermore, the in vitro translation products from this RNA are very similar to the wild type. Thus, R-3-thought to be the most functionally important component of the Kozak consensus-appears to be dispensable in CVB3. In contrast, a G-to-C transversion at G+4 is lethal; RNAs carrying this mutation fail to generate infectious virus either in tissue culture or in vivo. However, in vitro analysis indicates that G+4 has only a marginal effect on translational initiation, especially if R-3 is present; instead, the G+4 is required mainly because the second triplet of the polyprotein open reading frame must encode glycine, without which infectious virus production cannot proceed. In summary, our data indicate that CVB3 remains viable, even in vivo, in the absence of R-3, and we propose that the most important factor contributing to the high frequency of G+4-not only in CVB but also in other eukaryotic mRNAs, and thus in the consensus motif itself-may be the constraint upon the second amino acid rather than the requirements for translational initiation.
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- Stephanie Harkins
- Department of Neuropharmacology, CVN-9, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Malnou CE, Werner A, Borman AM, Westhof E, Kean KM. Effects of Vaccine Strain Mutations in Domain V of the Internal Ribosome Entry Segment Compared in the Wild Type Poliovirus Type 1 Context. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:10261-9. [PMID: 14672927 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m307806200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Initiation of poliovirus (PV) protein synthesis is governed by an internal ribosome entry segment structured into several domains including domain V, which is accepted to be important in PV neurovirulence because it harbors an attenuating mutation in each of the vaccine strains developed by A. Sabin. To better understand how these single point mutations exert their effects, we placed each of them into the same genomic context, that of PV type 1. Only the mutation equivalent to the Sabin type 3 strain mutation resulted in significantly reduced viral growth both in HeLa and neuroblastoma cells. This correlated with poor translation efficiency in vitro and could be explained by a structural perturbation of the domain V of the internal ribosome entry segment, as evidenced by RNA melting experiments. We demonstrated that reduced cell death observed during infection by this mutant is due to the absence of inhibition of host cell translation. We confirmed that this shut-off is correlated principally with cleavage of eIF4GII and not eIF4GI and that this cleavage is significantly impaired in the case of the defective mutant. These data support the previously reported conclusion that the 2A protease has markedly different affinities for the two eIF4G isoforms.
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- Cécile E Malnou
- Unité de Régulation de la Traduction Eucaryote et Virale, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris, France
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Gowda S, Shrivastav A, Selvakumar P, Dimmock JR, Sharma RK. A novel inhibitor protein of N-myristoyltransferase from Escherichia coli. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 314:984-7. [PMID: 14751229 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.12.192] [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] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) catalyzes the covalent attachment of myristate to the N-terminal of the glycine residue of various eukaryotic and viral proteins of diverse functions. Earlier, we have demonstrated that NMT activity is elevated in colon and gall bladder cancer. Attenuation of NMT activity may prove a novel therapeutic protocol for cancer. We report here a novel inhibitor protein of NMT being expressed in Escherichia coli cells containing the human NMT gene on increasing the incubation period from 5 to 24h. The inhibitor protein was purified by SP-Sepharose column chromatography, heat treatment, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and Superose 12 HR/30 FPLC column chromatography. The inhibitor protein had an apparent molecular mass of 10kDa by gel filtration. It inhibited human NMT in a concentration-dependent manner with 50% inhibition at 640+/-4.68nM. The inhibitor protein showed no direct interaction with myristoyl-CoA and demonstrated no demyristoylase or protease activity. Therefore, we conclude that the inhibitor protein acts directly on NMT.
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- Sweta Gowda
- Department of Pathology and Cancer Research Unit, Saskatchewan Cancer Agency, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, S7N 4H4, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada
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Malnou CE, Pöyry TAA, Jackson RJ, Kean KM. Poliovirus internal ribosome entry segment structure alterations that specifically affect function in neuronal cells: molecular genetic analysis. J Virol 2002; 76:10617-26. [PMID: 12368304 PMCID: PMC136602 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.21.10617-10626.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Translation of poliovirus RNA is driven by an internal ribosome entry segment (IRES) present in the 5' noncoding region of the genomic RNA. This IRES is structured into several domains, including domain V, which contains a large lateral bulge-loop whose predicted secondary structure is unclear. The primary sequence of this bulge-loop is strongly conserved within enteroviruses and rhinoviruses: it encompasses two GNAA motifs which could participate in intrabulge base pairing or (in one case) could be presented as a GNRA tetraloop. We have begun to address the question of the significance of the sequence conservation observed among enterovirus reference strains and field isolates by using a comprehensive site-directed mutagenesis program targeted to these two GNAA motifs. Mutants were analyzed functionally in terms of (i) viability and growth kinetics in both HeLa and neuronal cell lines, (ii) structural analyses by biochemical probing of the RNA, and (iii) translation initiation efficiencies in vitro in rabbit reticulocyte lysates supplemented with HeLa or neuronal cell extracts. Phenotypic analyses showed that only viruses with both GNAA motifs destroyed were significantly affected in their growth capacities, which correlated with in vitro translation defects. The phenotypic defects were strongly exacerbated in neuronal cells, where a temperature-sensitive phenotype could be revealed at between 37 and 39.5 degrees C. Biochemical probing of mutated domain V, compared to the wild type, demonstrated that such mutations lead to significant structural perturbations. Interestingly, revertant viruses possessed compensatory mutations which were distant from the primary mutations in terms of sequence and secondary structure, suggesting that intradomain tertiary interactions could exist within domain V of the IRES.
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- Cécile E Malnou
- Unité de Régulation de la Traduction Eucaryote et Virale, CNRS URA 1966, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Vignuzzi M, Gerbaud S, van der Werf S, Escriou N. Expression of a membrane-anchored glycoprotein, the influenza virus hemagglutinin, by dicistronic replicons derived from the poliovirus genome. J Virol 2002; 76:5285-90. [PMID: 11967344 PMCID: PMC136135 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.10.5285-5290.2002] [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] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mono- and dicistronic poliovirus replicons were constructed to express the influenza virus hemagglutinin, retaining its signal peptide and transmembrane region. Picornavirus genomes do not normally encode glycoproteins, and only the dicistronic replicon, in which the foreign and poliovirus sequences were separated by the encephalomyocarditis virus internal ribosomal entry site, replicated and expressed glycosylated hemagglutinin.
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- Marco Vignuzzi
- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires, URA 1966 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cédex 15, France
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Vignuzzi M, Gerbaud S, van der Werf S, Escriou N. Naked RNA immunization with replicons derived from poliovirus and Semliki Forest virus genomes for the generation of a cytotoxic T cell response against the influenza A virus nucleoprotein. J Gen Virol 2001; 82:1737-1747. [PMID: 11413386 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-82-7-1737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The potential of RNA-based vaccines was evaluated for the generation of a protective immune response in the mouse model of influenza type A virus infection using the internal nucleoprotein (NP) as antigen. This antigen is of particular interest, since it has the potential to elicit protective cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) against heterologous strains of influenza A virus. In view of the short half-life of RNA, self-replicating RNAs or replicons of the positive-stranded genomes of Semliki Forest virus (SFV) and poliovirus were engineered to synthesize the influenza A virus NP in place of their structural proteins. NP expression was demonstrated by immunoprecipitation after transfection of cells with RNA from the SFV (rSFV-NP) and poliovirus (rDeltaP1-E-NP) genome-derived replicons transcribed in vitro. C57BL/6 mice were injected intramuscularly with these synthetic RNAs in naked form. Both replicons, rSFV-NP and rDeltaP1-E-NP, induced antibodies against the influenza virus NP, but only mice immunized with the rSFV-NP replicon developed a CTL response against the immunodominant H-2D(b) epitope NP366. Finally, the protective potential of the CTL response induced by immunization of mice with rSFV-NP RNA was demonstrated by the reduction of virus load in the lungs after challenge infection with mouse-adapted influenza A/PR/8/34 virus and was comparable to the protective potential of the response induced by plasmid DNA immunization. These results demonstrate that naked RNA immunization with self-replicating molecules can effectively induce both humoral and cellular immune responses and constitutes an alternative strategy to DNA immunization.
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- Marco Vignuzzi
- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires, URA 1966 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France1
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- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires, URA 1966 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France1
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- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires, URA 1966 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France1
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- Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Virus Respiratoires, URA 1966 CNRS, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, F-75724 Paris cedex 15, France1
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Teterina NL, Egger D, Bienz K, Brown DM, Semler BL, Ehrenfeld E. Requirements for assembly of poliovirus replication complexes and negative-strand RNA synthesis. J Virol 2001; 75:3841-50. [PMID: 11264373 PMCID: PMC114875 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.8.3841-3850.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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HeLa cells were transfected with several plasmids that encoded all poliovirus (PV) nonstructural proteins. Viral RNAs were transcribed by T7 RNA polymerase expressed from recombinant vaccinia virus. All plasmids produced similar amounts of viral proteins that were processed identically; however, RNAs were designed either to serve as templates for replication or to contain mutations predicted to prevent RNA replication. The mutations included substitution of the entire PV 5' noncoding region (NCR) with the encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) internal ribosomal entry site, thereby deleting the 5'-terminal cloverleaf-like structure, or insertion of three nucleotides in the 3Dpol coding sequence. Production of viral proteins was sufficient to induce the characteristic reorganization of intracellular membranes into heterogeneous-sized vesicles, independent of RNA replication. The vesicles were stably associated with viral RNA only when RNA replication could occur. Nonreplicating RNAs localized to distinct, nonoverlapping regions in the cell, excluded from the viral protein-membrane complexes. The absence of accumulation of positive-strand RNA from both mutated RNAs in transfected cells was documented. In addition, no minus-strand RNA was produced from the EMCV chimeric template RNA in vitro. These data show that the 5'-terminal sequences of PV RNA are essential for initiation of minus-strand RNA synthesis at its 3' end.
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- N L Teterina
- Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Slifka MK, Pagarigan R, Mena I, Feuer R, Whitton JL. Using recombinant coxsackievirus B3 to evaluate the induction and protective efficacy of CD8+ T cells during picornavirus infection. J Virol 2001; 75:2377-87. [PMID: 11160741 PMCID: PMC114821 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.5.2377-2387.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) is a common human pathogen that has been associated with serious diseases including myocarditis and pancreatitis. To better understand the effect of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses in controlling CVB3 infection, we have inserted well-characterized CTL epitopes into the CVB3 genome. Constructs were made by placing the epitope of interest upstream of the open reading frame encoding the CVB3 polyprotein, separated by a poly-glycine linker and an artificial 3Cpro/3CDpro cleavage site. This strategy results in the foreign protein being translated at the amino- terminus of the viral polyprotein, from which it is cleaved prior to viral assembly. In this study, we cloned major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted CTL epitopes from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) into recombinant CVB3 (rCVB3). In vitro, rCVB3 growth kinetics showed a 1- to 2-h lag period before exponential growth was initiated, and peak titers were approximately 1 log unit lower than for wild-type virus. rCVB3 replicated to high titers in vivo and caused severe pancreatitis but minimal myocarditis. Despite the high virus titers, rCVB3 infection of naive mice failed to induce a strong CD8+ T-cell response to the encoded epitope; this has implications for the proposed role of "cross-priming" during virus infection and for the utility of recombinant picornaviruses as vaccine vectors. In contrast, rCVB3 infection of LCMV-immune mice resulted in direct ex vivo cytotoxic activity against target cells coated with the epitope peptide, demonstrating that the rCVB3-encoded LCMV-specific epitope was expressed and presented in vivo. The preexisting CD8+ memory T cells could limit rCVB replication; compared to naive mice, infection of LCMV-immune mice with rCVB3 resulted in approximately 50-fold-lower virus titers in the heart and approximately 6-fold-lower virus titers in the pancreas. Although the inserted CTL epitope was retained by rCVB3 through several passages in tissue culture, it was lost in an organ-specific manner in vivo; a substantial proportion of viruses from the pancreas retained the insert, compared to only 0 to 1.8% of myocardial viruses. Together, these results show that expression of heterologous viral proteins by recombinant CVB3 provides a useful model for determining the mechanisms underlying the immune response to this viral pathogen.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antigens, Viral
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Coxsackievirus Infections/immunology
- Coxsackievirus Infections/virology
- Enterovirus B, Human/genetics
- Enterovirus B, Human/growth & development
- Enterovirus B, Human/immunology
- Enterovirus B, Human/pathogenicity
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Glycoproteins/immunology
- Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Humans
- Immunologic Memory
- Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Recombination, Genetic
- Transfection
- Viral Proteins
- Virus Replication
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- M K Slifka
- Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Martín-Belmonte F, López-Guerrero JA, Carrasco L, Alonso MA. The amino-terminal nine amino acid sequence of poliovirus capsid VP4 protein is sufficient to confer N-myristoylation and targeting to detergent-insoluble membranes. Biochemistry 2000; 39:1083-90. [PMID: 10653654 DOI: 10.1021/bi992132e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The confinement of membrane proteins by lipid-lipid interactions into specialized detergent-insoluble membrane (DIM) microdomains has been proposed as a general mechanism to recruit selectively lipid-modified proteins and specific transmembrane proteins. Poliovirus capsid VP4 protein and its precursors are myristoylated at the NH(2)-terminal Gly residue. To determine whether poliovirus uses DIMs during its replicative cycle, we isolated DIMs from poliovirus-infected HeLa cells and identified the presence of capsid proteins and their precursors, proteinases 2A and 3C, and other viral proteins involved in poliovirus RNA replication such as protein 2C and the polymerase 3D. The morphology of these DIMs was similar to that of the previously described rosette-like vesicles associated with replication complexes isolated from poliovirus-infected cells. To examine the possible role of the myristoyl moiety in the targeting of poliovirus structural proteins to DIMs, we generated a chimeric protein consisting of the nine amino-terminal amino acids from VP4 fused to the amino terminus of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). The selected VP4 sequence was sufficient to confer N-myristoylation and targeting to DIMs to the GFP chimera. Mutations within this sequence known to affect both myristoylation and poliovirus assembly abrogated the targeting of the GFP chimera. These results indicate that the myristoylated amino-terminal nonapeptide from poliovirus VP4 protein constitutes a signal for incorporation into DIMs.
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- F Martín-Belmonte
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa", Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Badshah C, Calenoff MA, Rundell K. The leader polypeptide of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus is required for the assembly of virions in mouse L cells. J Virol 2000; 74:875-82. [PMID: 10623750 PMCID: PMC111608 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.74.2.875-882.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Deletion of the entire leader polypeptide of the GDVII strain of Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) results in the production of an attenuated virus that grows in baby hamster kidney (BHK) cells but cannot grow at all in mouse L-929 cells. This study examined the reasons for the failure of dl-L, the GDVII variant that lacks the leader polypeptide, to grow in mouse cells. At low multiplicities of infection, it was difficult to detect any viral proteins in mouse cells. However, levels of positive- and negative-strand RNA molecules were only moderately reduced in these infections. Viral RNA showed no major defect in translatability, as the mutant viral RNA was nearly as efficient as that of the wild-type (WT) virus in directing protein synthesis in vitro in assays using extracts prepared from mouse L cells. Viral protein synthesis was detected in dl-L-infected mouse cells as multiplicities of infection were increased and approached the levels observed in WT infections. Despite this, there was a total lack of virus production in high-multiplicity infections, and this was found to correlate with the failure of viral proteins and early virion precursors to assemble into virions in mouse cells. Thus, the inability of dl-L to grow in mouse cells reflects complex effects on various stages of the virus infection but is primarily a defect in virus assembly.
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- C Badshah
- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Van der Ryst E, Nakasone T, Habel A, Venet A, Gomard E, Altmeyer R, Girard M, Borman AM. Study of the immunogenicity of different recombinant Mengo viruses expressing HIV1 and SIV epitopes. RESEARCH IN VIROLOGY 1998; 149:5-20. [PMID: 9561560 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2516(97)86896-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Recombinant Mengo viruses expressing heterologous genes have proven to be safe and immunogenic in both mice and primates, and to be able to induce both humoral and cellular immune responses (Altmeyer et al., 1995, 1996). Several recombinant Mengo viruses expressing either a large region (aa 65-206) of the HIV1 nef gene product, or cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopic regions from the SIV Gag (aa 182-190), Nef (aa 155-178) and Pol (aa 587-601) gene products were engineered. The heterologous antigens were expressed either as fusion proteins with the Mengo virus leader (L) protein, or in cleaved form through autocatalytic cleavage by the foot-and-mouth disease virus 2A protein. Rhesus macaques and BALB/c mice inoculated with the Mengo virus SIV recombinants failed to develop CTL responses against the SIV gene products, while one of the HIV-Nef recombinants induced a weak CTL response in mice directed to an HIV1 Nef peptide spanning positions 182-198. In contrast, BALB/c mice immunized with vaccinia virus recombinants expressing HIV1 Nef developed a strong CTL response to the 182-198 peptide and also responded to a second peptide spanning positions 73-81. These results indicate that Mengo virus recombinants expressing HIV1 Nef and SIV CTL epitopes are weak immunogens. One of the fusion recombinants expressing SIV CTL epitopes failed to infect macaques even when used at high doses, while the recombinant expressing HIV1 Nef as a fusion protein failed to infect BALB/c mice. These results demonstrate that the expression of certain heterologous sequences as fusion proteins with L can result in the loss of the ability of the recombinant to infect normally susceptible animals.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Viral/biosynthesis
- Cytotoxicity, Immunologic
- Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
- Gene Products, gag/genetics
- Gene Products, gag/immunology
- Gene Products, nef/genetics
- Gene Products, nef/immunology
- Gene Products, pol/genetics
- Gene Products, pol/immunology
- Genetic Vectors
- HIV Antibodies/biosynthesis
- HIV-1/genetics
- HIV-1/immunology
- HeLa Cells
- Humans
- Immunization
- Macaca mulatta
- Mengovirus/genetics
- Mengovirus/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Plasmids
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
- Simian Immunodeficiency Virus/genetics
- Simian Immunodeficiency Virus/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- Vaccinia virus/immunology
- nef Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
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Borman AM, Le Mercier P, Girard M, Kean KM. Comparison of picornaviral IRES-driven internal initiation of translation in cultured cells of different origins. Nucleic Acids Res 1997; 25:925-32. [PMID: 9023100 PMCID: PMC146526 DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.5.925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We recently compared the efficiency of six picornaviral internal ribosome entry segments (IRESes) and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) IRES for their ability to drive internal initiation of translationin vitro. Here we present the results of a similar comparison performed in six different cultured cell lines infected with a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing the T7 polymerase and transfected with dicistronic plasmids. The IRESes could be divided into three groups: (i) the cardiovirus and aphthovirus IRESes (and the HCV element) direct internal initiation efficiently in all cell lines tested; (ii) the enterovirus and rhinovirus IRESes are at least equally efficient in several cell lines, but are extremely inefficient in certain cell types; and (iii) the hepatitis A virus IRES is incapable of directing efficient internal initiation in any of the cell lines used (including human hepatocytes). These are the same three groups found when IRESes were classified according to their activitiesin vitro, or according to sequence homologies. In a mouse neuronal cell line, the poliovirus and other type I IRESes were not functional in an artificial bicistronic context. However, infectious poliovirions were produced efficiently after transfection of these cells with a genomic length RNA. Furthermore, activity of the type I IRESes was dramatically increased upon co-expression of the poliovirus 2A proteinase, demonstrating that while IRES efficiency may vary considerably from one cell type to another, at least in some cases viral proteins are capable of overcoming cell-specific translational defects.
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- A M Borman
- Unité de Virologie Moléculaire (CNRS URA 1966) and 1 Laboratoire des Lyssavirus, Institut Pasteur, 25, rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris cedex 15, France
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N-myristoylation is an acylation process absolutely specific to the N-terminal amino acid glycine in proteins. This maturation process concerns about a hundred proteins in lower and higher eukaryotes involved in oncogenesis, in secondary cellular signalling, in infectivity of retroviruses and, marginally, of other virus types. Thy cytosolic enzyme responsible for this activity, N-myristoyltransferase (NMT), studied since 1987, has been purified from different sources. However, the studies of the specificities of the various NMTs have not progressed in detail except for those relating to the yeast cytosolic enzyme. Still to be explained are differences in species specificity and between various putative isoenzymes, also whether the data obtained from the yeast enzyme can be transposed to other NMTs. The present review discusses data on the various addressing processes subsequent to myristoylation, a patchwork of pathways that suggests myristoylation is only the first step of the mechanisms by which a protein associates with the membrane. Concerning the enzyme itself, there are evidences that NMT is also present in the endoplasmic reticulum and that its substrate specificity is different from that of the cytosolic enzyme(s). These differences have major implications for their differential inhibition and for their respective roles in several pathologies. For instance, the NMTs from mammalians are clearly different from those found in several microorganisms, which raises the question whether the NMT may be a new targets for fungicides. Finally, since myristoylation has a central role in virus maturation and oncogenesis, specific NMT inhibitors might lead to potent antivirus and anticancer agents.
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- J A Boutin
- Département de Chemie des Peptides, Institut de Recherches Servier 11, Suresnes, France
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Pilipenko EV, Poperechny KV, Maslova SV, Melchers WJ, Slot HJ, Agol VI. Cis-element, oriR, involved in the initiation of (-) strand poliovirus RNA: a quasi-globular multi-domain RNA structure maintained by tertiary ('kissing') interactions. EMBO J 1996; 15:5428-36. [PMID: 8895586 PMCID: PMC452285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The key steps in the replication of the poliovirus genome, initiation of (-) and (+) strands, require two different cis-acting elements, oriR and oriL, respectively. It has been proposed that the spatial organization of these elements is maintained by tertiary ('kissing') interactions between the loops of two constituent hairpins. Here, the putative partners of the kissing interaction within the oriR of the full-length poliovirus RNA were modified by site-directed mutagenesis. The destabilization of this interaction resulted in a severe suppression of the viral RNA synthesis, but the mutant transcripts proved to be infectious. With a single exception, the potential for the kissing interaction within the oriR of the recovered viruses was partially or completely restored due to either true reversions or second-site compensatory mutations. There was a good correlation between the restoration of this potential and the phenotypic properties of the viruses. It was concluded that the kissing interaction in the poliovirus oriR is functionally important. Using the above experimental data, a three-dimensional structure was derived by molecular modeling techniques, which demonstrated the overall feasibility of the proposed interactions and displayed the poliovirus oriR as a quasi-globular multi-domain structure.
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- E V Pilipenko
- M.P.Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
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Ansardi DC, Porter DC, Anderson MJ, Morrow CD. Poliovirus Assembly and Encapsidation of Genomic RNA. Adv Virus Res 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60069-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Raju RV, Magnuson BA, Sharma RK. Mammalian myristoyl CoA: protein N-myristoyltransferase. Mol Cell Biochem 1995; 149-150:191-202. [PMID: 8569729 DOI: 10.1007/bf01076577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Myristoyl CoA:Protein N-myristoyltransferase (NMT) is the enzyme which catalyses the covalent transfer of myristate from myristoyl CoA to the amino-terminal glycine residue of protein substrates. Although NMT is ubiquitous in eukaryotic cells, the enzyme levels and cellular distribution vary among tissues. In this article, we describe the properties of mammalian NMT(s) with reference to subcellular distribution, molecular weights, substrate specificity and the possible involvement of NMT in pathological processes. The cytosolic fraction of bovine brain contains majority of NMT activity. In contrast, rabbit colon and rat liver NMT activity was predominantly particulate. Regional differences in NMT activity have been observed in both rabbit intestine and bovine brain. Results from our laboratory along with the existing knowledge, provide evidence for the existence of tissue specific isozymes of NMT.
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- R V Raju
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
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Boutin JA, Ferry G, Ernould AP, Maes P, Remond G, Vincent M. Myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase activity in cancer cells. Purification and characterization of a cytosolic isoform from the murine leukemia cell line L1210. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1993; 214:853-67. [PMID: 8391437 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb17989.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Myristoylation is a co-translational maturation process of proteins. It is extremely specific for the cosubstrate (myristoyl-CoA) and for the substrate protein that should bear a glycine at the N-terminus of the protein to be myristoylated. This acylation is catalyzed by the myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase. Most of the molecular biochemistry and biology concerning this enzyme has been done on Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Because of the major importance of this pathway in several types of pathology, it is essential to study intensively the enzyme(s) isolated from mammalian tissue(s) to confirm that the enormous amount of work done on the yeast enzyme can be transposed to mammalian tissues. In earlier studies, we demonstrated the existence of a microsomal N-myristoyltransferase from the murine leukemia cell line L1210 [Boutin, J. A., Clarenc, J.-P., Ferry, G., Ernould, A. P., Remond, G., Vincent, M. & Atassi, G. (1991) Eur. J. Biochem. 201, 257-263], a feature which is not shared by yeast, and examined the N-myristoyltransferase activities associated with L1210 cytosol. In the present work, we purified to homogeneity one of the isoforms (A) of the transferase from L1210 cytosol. The purified enzyme showed on SDS/PAGE an apparent molecular mass of 67.5 kDa, distinct from the 53-kDa yeast cytosolic enzyme. The purified enzyme from L1210 cytosol could be labeled with [14C]myristoyl-CoA. Rabbit antibodies were raised against the A isoform and used to immunoprecipitate the enzyme and immunoinhibit the activity from the same source. A survey of the specificity of the partially and completely purified isoforms was performed using peptides derived from the NH2-terminus of 42 proteins which are potential substrates for myristoylation, including oncogene products and virus structural proteins. We synthesized a series of compounds capable of inhibiting the cytosol activities of the enzyme. For example, a myristoyltetrahydroquinolein derivative showed an IC50 of about 0.1 microM. Based on both biophysical and biochemical evidence, the N-myristoyltransferases extracted from mammalian cell cytosols seem to be different from the extensively studied yeast enzyme.
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- J A Boutin
- Département de Cancérologie Expérimentale, Institut de Recherches Servier, Suresnes, France
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Belsham GJ. Distinctive features of foot-and-mouth disease virus, a member of the picornavirus family; aspects of virus protein synthesis, protein processing and structure. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1993; 60:241-60. [PMID: 8396787 PMCID: PMC7173301 DOI: 10.1016/0079-6107(93)90016-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 243] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- G J Belsham
- AFRC Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, Woking, Surrey, U.K
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- D Stahl
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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Moscufo N, Chow M. Myristate-protein interactions in poliovirus: interactions of VP4 threonine 28 contribute to the structural conformation of assembly intermediates and the stability of assembled virions. J Virol 1992; 66:6849-57. [PMID: 1331497 PMCID: PMC240287 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.12.6849-6857.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The VP4 capsid protein of poliovirus is N-terminally modified with myristic acid. Within the poliovirus structure, a hydrogen bond is observed between the myristate carbonyl and the hydroxyl side chain of threonine 28 of VP4. This interaction is between two fivefold symmetry-related copies of VP4 and is one of several myristoyl-mediated interactions that appears to structurally link the promoters within the pentamer subunit of the virus particle. Site-specific substitutions of the threonine residue were constructed to investigate the biological relevance of these myristate-protein interactions. Replacement of the threonine with glycine or lysine is lethal, generating nonviable viruses. Substitution with serine or valine led to viable viruses, but these mutants displayed anomalies during virus assembly. In addition, both assembled serine- and valine-substituted virion particles showed reduced infectivity and were more sensitive to thermal inactivation and antibody neutralization. Thus the threonine residue provides interactions necessary for efficient assembly of the virus and for virion stability.
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- N Moscufo
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Devadas B, Lu T, Katoh A, Kishore N, Wade A, Mehta P, Rudnick D, Bryant M, Adams S, Li Q. Substrate specificity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae myristoyl-CoA: protein N-myristoyltransferase. Analysis of fatty acid analogs containing carbonyl groups, nitrogen heteroatoms, and nitrogen heterocycles in an in vitro enzyme assay and subsequent identification of inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus I replication. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)42509-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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- C U Hellen
- Department of Microbiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8621
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Lee YM, Chow M. Myristate modification does not function as a membrane association signal during poliovirus capsid assembly. Virology 1992; 187:814-20. [PMID: 1312279 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90485-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The myristate moiety is required for poliovirus assembly. Unlike most other myristoyl-modified proteins, which are membrane associated, no specific membrane association of the poliovirus capsid proteins or assembly intermediates was observed. Furthermore, no apparent differences in membrane association of wild-type and myristoylation deficient mutant viruses could be detected in this analysis. Thus, during poliovirus assembly, the myristate modification is not required as a membrane targeting signal but is more likely involved in structural interactions between protomer subunits.
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- Y M Lee
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
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Hellen CU, Wimmer E. The role of proteolytic processing in the morphogenesis of virus particles. EXPERIENTIA 1992; 48:201-15. [PMID: 1740191 PMCID: PMC7087542 DOI: 10.1007/bf01923512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Proteinases are encoded by many RNA viruses, all retroviruses and several DNA viruses. They play essential roles at various stages in viral replication, including the coordinated assembly and maturation of virions. Most of these enzymes belong to one of three (Ser, Cys or Asp) of the four major classes of proteinases, and have highly substrate-selective and cleavage specific activities. They can be thought of as playing one of two general roles in viral morphogenesis. Structural proteins are encoded by retroviruses and many RNA viruses as part of large polyproteins. Their proteolytic release is a prerequisite to particle assembly; consequent structural rearrangement of the capsid domains serves to regulate and direct association and assembly of capsid subunits. The second general role of proteolysis is in assembly-dependent maturation of virus particles, which is accompanied by the acquisition of infectivity.
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- C U Hellen
- Department of Microbiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook 11794-8631
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Boutin JA, Clarenc JP, Ferry G, Ernould AP, Remond G, Vincent M, Atassi G. N-myristoyl-transferase activity in cancer cells. Solubilization, specificity and enzymatic inhibition of a N-myristoyl transferase from L1210 microsomes. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1991; 201:257-63. [PMID: 1915371 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1991.tb16282.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The activity catalyzed by N-myristoyl transferase (NMT) is described for the first time in microsome-rich fractions from the murine leukemia cell line L1210, rat brain and mouse liver as biological sources. The enzyme from each source can accommodate various types of proteins (protein kinase A, virus structural gag protein or pp60src) as modelized by the use of their N-terminal derived peptides (GNAAAARR, GQTVTTPL and GSSKSKPKDP, respectively). As for some other types of membrane-bound enzymes, NMT activity can be enhanced by pretreatment with various types of detergents, amongst which Triton 770 and deoxycholate were the most potent. Further experiments on the L1210 microsome-rich fractions demonstrate that these two detergents were able to solubilize the microsomal enzyme, without modifying its substrate specificity. Finally, three compounds described in the literature to be inhibitors of NMT activity from other sources were tested for L1210 microsome-associated activity. None of them show any significant potency in inhibiting this activity. A new compound, myristoylphenylalanine, shows a slightly better inhibitory effect on the L1210 microsomal activity than the reference compounds with a median inhibitory concentration (IC50) of 0.2 mM.
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- J A Boutin
- Departement de Cancerologie Experimentale, Institut de Recherches SERVIER, Suresnes, France
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The fatty acylation of rabies virus (CVS strain) proteins was investigated. [3H]palmitic acid was found to be incorporated into the glycoprotein G and to a lesser extent into the membrane-associated protein M2. The fatty acid linkage on G was sensitive to sodium borohydride, mercaptoethanol, and hydroxylamine, indicating that the linkage was of the thiolester type. Bromelain digestion indicated that the palmitoylation site on G was located in the intracytoplasmic domain or in the transmembrane domain in which there is only one cysteine in position 461. Therefore, palmitoylation is likely to occur at this position. In the case of M2, the linkage was also sensitive to hydroxylamine and sodium borohydride and to a lesser extent to mercaptoethanol, suggesting that the linkage also occurred on a cysteine.
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- Y Gaudin
- Laboratoire de Génétique des Virus, CNRS, Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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