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Zhang T, Li C, Cao M, Wang D, Wang Q, Xie Y, Gao S, Fu S, Zhou X, Wu J. A Novel Rice Curl Dwarf-Associated Picornavirus Encodes a 3C Serine Protease Recognizing Uncommon EPT/S Cleavage Sites. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:757451. [PMID: 34721366 PMCID: PMC8549817 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.757451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Picornaviruses cause diseases in a wide range of vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. Here, a novel picornavirus was identified by RNA-seq technology from rice plants showing dwarfing and curling symptoms, and the name rice curl dwarf-associated virus (RCDaV) is tentatively proposed. The RCDaV genome consists of an 8,987 nt positive-stranded RNA molecule, excluding a poly(A) tail, that encodes two large polyproteins. Using in vitro cleavage assays, we have identified that the RCDaV 3C protease (3Cpro) as a serine protease recognizes the conserved EPT/S cleavage site which differs from the classic Q(E)/G(S) sites cleaved by most picornaviral 3C chymotrypsin-like cysteine proteases. Therefore, we comprehensively deciphered the RCDaV genome organization and showed that the two polyproteins of RCDaV can be cleaved into 12 mature proteins. We found that seven unclassified picornaviruses also encode a 3Cpro similar to RCDaV, and use the highly conserved EPT/S as the cleavage site. The precise genome organizations of these viruses were illustrated. Moreover, RCDaV and the seven unclassified picornaviruses share high sequence identities and similar genome organizations, and cluster into a distinct clade in the order Picornavirales. Our study provides valuable information for the understanding of picornaviral 3Cpros, deciphers the genome organization of a few relatively obscure picornaviruses, and lays the foundation for further pathogenesis research on these viruses.
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- Tianze Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- National Citrus Engineering and Technology Research Center, Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Beibei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Hainan Research Institute of Zhejiang University, Hainan, China
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Yuan P, Yang Z, Song H, Wang K, Yang Y, Xie L, Huang S, Liu J, Ran L, Song Z. Three Main Inducers of Alphacoronavirus Infection of Enterocytes: Sialic Acid, Proteases, and Low pH. Intervirology 2018; 61:53-63. [PMID: 30176660 PMCID: PMC7179561 DOI: 10.1159/000492424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are similar coronaviruses, causing diseases characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, and death from severe dehydration in piglets. Thus, they have caused huge losses to the swine-breeding industry worldwide. Nowadays, they are easily transmitted among the continents via vehicles, equipment, and cargo. Both viruses establish an infection in porcine enterocytes in the small intestine, and their spike (S) proteins play a key role in the virus-cell binding process under unfavorable conditions when the intestine with a low pH is filled with a thick layer of mucus and proteases. Sialic acid, proteases, and low pH are three main inducers of coronavirus infection. However, the details of how sialic acid and low pH affect virus binding to the host cell are not determined, and the functions of the proteases are unknown. This review emphasizes the role of three factors in the invasion of TGEV and PEDV into porcine enterocytes and offers more insights into Alphacoronavirus infection in the intestinal environment.
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- *Zhenhui Song, PhD, Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Animal Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 402460 (People's Republic of China), E-Mail
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Siricoon S, Vichasri Grams S, Lertwongvisarn K, Abdullohfakeeyah M, Smooker PM, Grams R. Fasciola gigantica cathepsin B5 is an acidic endo- and exopeptidase of the immature and mature parasite. Biochimie 2015; 119:6-15. [PMID: 26453811 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2015.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Accepted: 10/05/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Cysteine proteases of the liver fluke Fasciola have been described as essential molecules in the infection process of the mammalian host. Destinct cathepsin Bs, which are already expressed in the metacercarial stage and released by the newly excysted juvenile are major actors in this process. Following infection their expression is stopped and the proteins will not be detectable any longer after the first month of development. On the contrary, the novel cathepsin B5 of Fasciola gigantica (FgCB5) described in this work was also found expressed in later juvenile stages and the mature worm. Like all previously described Fasciola family members it was located in the cecal epithelium of the parasite. Western blot analysis of adult antigen preparations detected procathepsin B5 in crude worm extract and in small amounts in the ES product. In support of these data, the sera of infected rabbits and mice were reactive with recombinant FgCB5 in Western blot and ELISA. Biochemical analysis of yeast-expressed FgCB5 revealed that it has properties of a lysosomal hydrolase optimized for activity at acid pH and that it is able to efficiently digest a broad spectrum of host proteins. Unlike previously characterized Fasciola family members FgCB5 carries a histidine doublet in the occluding loop equivalent to residues His110 and His111 of human mature cathepsin B and consequently showed substantial carboxydipeptidyl activity which depends on these two residues.
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- Sinee Siricoon
- Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand
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- School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia
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- Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand.
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Cañizares MC, Lomonossoff GP, Nicholson L. Development of cowpea mosaic virus-based vectors for the production of vaccines in plants. Expert Rev Vaccines 2014; 4:687-97. [PMID: 16221070 DOI: 10.1586/14760584.4.5.687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Plant viruses are emerging as an attractive alternative to stable genetic transformation for the expression of foreign proteins in plants. The main advantages of using this strategy are that viral genomes are small and easy to manipulate, infection of plants with modified viruses is simpler and quicker than the regeneration of stably transformed plants and the sequence inserted into a virus vector will be highly amplified. One use of these virus expression systems is for vaccine production. Among plant viruses, cowpea mosaic virus makes an ideal candidate for the production of such vaccines because it grows extremely well in host plants, is very stable, and the purification of virus particles, if required, is straightforward. In this article, the authors review the progress made in the development of cowpea mosaic virus-based vectors for vaccine production, making use of two main approaches: epitope presentation and polypeptide expression.
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- M Carmen Cañizares
- Department of Biological Chemistry, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
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Sorrentino R, De Stradis A, Russo M, Alioto D, Rubino L. Characterization of a putative novel nepovirus from Aeonium sp. Virus Res 2013; 177:217-21. [PMID: 24012516 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2013.08.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2013] [Revised: 08/26/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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A virus was isolated from potted plants of an unidentified species of Aeonium, a succulent ornamental very common in Southern Italy, showing chlorotic spots and rings on both leaf surfaces. It was successfully transmitted by sap inoculation to a limited range of hosts, including Nicotiana benthamiana which was used for ultrastructural observations and virus purification. Virus particles are isometric, ca. 30nm in diameter, have a single type of coat protein (CP) subunits 54kDa in size, that encapsidate single-stranded positive-sense RNA species of 7549 (RNA1) and 4010 (RNA2) nucleotides. A third RNA molecule 3472 nts in size entirely derived from RNA2 was also found. The structural organization of both genomic RNAs and the cytopathological features were comparable to those of nepoviruses. In addition, amino acid sequence comparisons of CP and the Pro-Pol region (a sequence containing parts of the proteinase and polymerase) with those of other nepoviruses showed that the Aeonium virus belongs to the subgroup A of the genus Nepovirus and is phylogenetically close to, but serologically distinct from tobacco ringspot virus (TRSV). Based on the species demarcation criteria for the family Secoviridae, the virus under study appears to be a novel member of the genus Nepovirus for which the name of Aeonium ringspot virus (AeRSV) is proposed.
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- Roberto Sorrentino
- Università di Napoli "Federico II", via Università 100, 80055 Portici (NA), Italy
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Wu KH, Hsieh YH, Tai PC. Mutational analysis of Cvab, an ABC transporter involved in the secretion of active colicin V. PLoS One 2012; 7:e35382. [PMID: 22539970 PMCID: PMC3335142 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2011] [Accepted: 03/16/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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CvaB is the central membrane transporter of the colicin V secretion system that belongs to an ATP-binding cassette superfamily. Previous data showed that the N-terminal and C-terminal domains of CvaB are essential for the function of CvaB. N-terminal domain of CvaB possesses Ca2+-dependent cysteine proteolytic activity, and two critical residues, Cys32 and His105, have been identified. In this study, we also identify Asp121 as being the third residue of the putative catalytic triad within the active site of the enzyme. The Asp121 mutants lose both their colicin V secretion activity and N-terminal proteolytic activity. The adjacent residue Pro122 also appears to play a critical role in the colicin V secretion. However, the reversal of the two residues D121P - P122D results in loss of activity. Based on molecular modeling and protein sequence alignment, several residues adjacent to the critical residues, Cys32 and His105, were also examined and characterized. Site-directed mutagenesis of Trp101, Asp102, Val108, Leu76, Gly77, and Gln26 indicate that the neighboring residues around the catalytic triad affect colicin V secretion. Several mutated CvaB proteins with defective secretion were also tested, including Asp121 and Pro122, and were found to be structurally stable. These results indicate that the residues surrounding the identified catalytic triad are functionally involved in the secretion of biologically active colicin V.
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- Kai-Hui Wu
- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- * E-mail:
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Fan Q, Niroula M, Feldstein PA, Bruening G. Participation of the Cowpea mosaic virus protease in eliciting extreme resistance. Virology 2011; 417:71-8. [PMID: 21640367 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2011.04.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2011] [Revised: 04/12/2011] [Accepted: 04/27/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Extreme resistance of Arlington line cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) to Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) is under control of a dominant locus designated Cpa. We transiently expressed, using Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV) vectors and Agrobacterium tumefaciens, in nearly isogenic Cpa/Cpa and cpa/cpa cowpea lines, sequences from RNA1, the larger of two CPMV genomic RNAs. Activation of a Cpa-specific response mapped to the CPMV 24K protease (24KPro). Mutational analysis of the 24KPro gene implicated protease activity, rather than 24KPro structure, in Cpa-mediated recognition of CPMV invasion. A 24KPro with alanine replacing the active site cysteine [24KPro(C-A)], but not wildtype 24KPro, accumulated after agroinfiltration of the corresponding binary vector constructions into Cpa/Cpa cowpea. In cpa/cpa cowpea, both protease versions accumulated, with 24KPro(C-A) in greater abundance. Thus, enzymically active 24KPro was recognized by both cowpea genotypes, but in Cpa/Cpa cowpea the suppression of 24KPro accumulation was very strong, consistent with extreme resistance to CPMV.
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- Qiuling Fan
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Tomitaka Y, Usugi T, Yasuda F, Okayama H, Tsuda S. A novel member of the genus Nepovirus isolated from Cucumis melo in Japan. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2011; 101:316-322. [PMID: 20955084 DOI: 10.1094/phyto-06-10-0150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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An unusual virus was isolated from a Japanese Cucumis melo cv. Prince melon plant showing mild mottling of the leaves. The virus had a broad experimental host range including at least 19 plant species in five families, with most infected plants showing no symptoms on inoculated and uninoculated systemically infected leaves. The virus particles were spherical, approximately 28 nm in diameter, and the coat protein (CP) had an apparent molecular mass of about 55 kDa. The virus possessed a bi-partite genome with two RNA species, of approximately 8,000 and 4,000 nucleotides. Both genome components for the new virus were sequenced. Amino acid sequence identities in CP between the new virus and previously characterized nepoviruses were found to be low (less than 27%); however, in phylogenetic reconstructions the closest relationship was revealed between the new virus and subgroup A nepoviruses. These results suggest that the new virus represents a novel member of the genus Nepovirus. A new name, Melon mild mottle virus, has been proposed for this new virus.
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Khandekar S, He J, Leisner S. Complete nucleotide sequence of the Toledo isolate of turnip ringspot virus. Arch Virol 2009; 154:1917-22. [PMID: 19838619 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-009-0523-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2009] [Accepted: 09/17/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The complete genomic sequence of the Toledo isolate of the comovirus, turnip ringspot virus (TuRSV), was found to consist of 2 polyadenylated RNAs. RNA 1 is 6082 nucleotides long and encodes a single predicted polypeptide of 1860 amino acids. The predicted RNA 1 polyprotein contains the polypeptides for viral replication and proteolytic processing. RNA 2, that is 3985 nucleotides long, codes for a single predicted 1095 amino acid polypeptide containing the movement and coat proteins. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that TuRSV is most closely related to radish mosaic virus, and these crucifer-infecting pathogens form a distinct clade within the comoviruses.
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- Sushant Khandekar
- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
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Komatsu K, Hashimoto M, Maejima K, Ozeki J, Kagiwada S, Takahashi S, Yamaji Y, Namba S. Genome sequence of a Japanese isolate of Radish mosaic virus: the first complete nucleotide sequence of a crucifer-infecting comovirus. Arch Virol 2007; 152:1501-6. [PMID: 17533551 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-007-0993-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2007] [Accepted: 04/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The complete nucleotide sequences of RNA1 and RNA2 of a Japanese isolate of Radish mosaic virus (RaMV-J), a crucifer-infecting comovirus, were determined. RNA1 is 6064 nucleotides long and encodes a 210-kDa polyprotein containing conserved motifs that are required for replication. RNA2 is 4020 nucleotides long and encodes a 123-kDa polyprotein containing the putative movement protein and two coat proteins. Comparisons of the encoded proteins confirmed that RaMV-J and a Czech RaMV isolate are isolates of the same species in the genus Comovirus. A phylogenetic analysis of RaMV-J and other comoviruses revealed that legume-infecting comoviruses constitute a single branch to which RaMV is distantly related.
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- K Komatsu
- Laboratory of Plant Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Le Chat L, Sinden RE, Dessens JT. The role of metacaspase 1 in Plasmodium berghei development and apoptosis. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2007; 153:41-7. [PMID: 17335919 PMCID: PMC2075530 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2006] [Revised: 01/23/2007] [Accepted: 01/24/2007] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The malaria parasite encodes a wide range of proteases necessary to facilitate its many developmental transitions in vertebrate and insect hosts. Amongst these is a predicted cysteine protease structurally related to caspases, named Plasmodium metacaspase 1 (PxMC1). We have generated Plasmodium berghei parasites in which the PbMC1coding sequence is removed and replaced with a green fluorescent reporter gene to investigate the expression of PbMC1, its contribution to parasite development, and its involvement in previously reported apoptosis-like cell death of P. berghei ookinetes. Our results show that the pbmc1 gene is expressed in female gametocytes and all downstream mosquito stages including sporozoites, but not in asexual blood stages. We failed to detect an apparent loss-of-function phenotype, suggesting that PbMC1 constitutes a functionally redundant gene. We discuss these findings in the context of two other putative Plasmodium metacaspases that we describe here.
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- Ludovic Le Chat
- Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
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- Division of Cell & Molecular Biology, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 2076127865; fax: +44 2074365389.
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Holt DC, Fischer K, Pizzutto SJ, Currie BJ, Walton SF, Kemp DJ. A multigene family of inactivated cysteine proteases in Sarcoptes scabiei. J Invest Dermatol 2004; 123:240-1. [PMID: 15191567 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202x.2004.22716.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Porta C, Spall VE, Findlay KC, Gergerich RC, Farrance CE, Lomonossoff GP. Cowpea mosaic virus-based chimaeras. Effects of inserted peptides on the phenotype, host range, and transmissibility of the modified viruses. Virology 2003; 310:50-63. [PMID: 12788630 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00140-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Expression of foreign peptides on the surface of cowpea mosaic virus particles leads to the creation of chimaeras with a variety of phenotypes and yields. Two factors were shown to be particularly significant in determining the properties of a given chimaera: the length of the inserted sequence and its isoelectric point. The deleterious effect of high isoelectric point on the ability of chimeras to produce a systemic infection occurs irrespective of the site of insertion of the peptide. Ultrastructural analysis of tissue infected with chimaeras with different phenotypes showed that all produced particles with a tendency to aggregate, irrespective of the size or isoelectric point of the insert. Host range and transmission studies revealed that the expression of a foreign peptide did not (1) alter the virus host range, (2) increase the rate of transmission by beetles or through seed, or (3) change the insect vector specificity. These findings have implications for both the utility and the biosafety of Cowpea mosaic virus-based chimaeras.
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Thole V, Hull R. Characterization of a protein from Rice tungro spherical virus with serine proteinase-like activity. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:3179-3186. [PMID: 12466496 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-12-3179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The RNA genome of Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) is predicted to be expressed as a large polyprotein precursor (Shen et al., Virology 193, 621-630, 1993 ). The polyprotein is processed by at least one virus-encoded protease located adjacent to the C-terminal putative RNA polymerase which shows sequence similarity to viral serine-like proteases. The catalytic activity of this protease was explored using in vitro transcription/translation systems. Besides acting in cis, the protease had activity in trans on precursors containing regions of the 3' half of the polyprotein but did not process a substrate consisting of a precursor of the coat proteins. The substitution mutation of Asp(2735) of the RTSV polyprotein had no effect on proteolysis; however, His(2680), Glu(2717), Cys(2811) and His(2830) proved to be essential for catalytic activity and could constitute the catalytic centre and/or substrate-binding pocket of the RTSV 3C-like protease.
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- Vera Thole
- John Innes Centre, Department of Metabolic Biology1 and Department of Disease and Stress Biology2, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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- John Innes Centre, Department of Metabolic Biology1 and Department of Disease and Stress Biology2, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
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Hegyi A, Friebe A, Gorbalenya AE, Ziebuhr J. Mutational analysis of the active centre of coronavirus 3C-like proteases. J Gen Virol 2002; 83:581-593. [PMID: 11842253 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-83-3-581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Formation of the coronavirus replication-transcription complex involves the synthesis of large polyprotein precursors that are extensively processed by virus-encoded cysteine proteases. In this study, the coding sequence of the feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV) main protease, 3CL(pro), was determined. Comparative sequence analyses revealed that FIPV 3CL(pro) and other coronavirus main proteases are related most closely to the 3C-like proteases of potyviruses. The predicted active centre of the coronavirus enzymes has accepted unique replacements that were probed by extensive mutational analysis. The wild-type FIPV 3CL(pro) domain and 25 mutants were expressed in Escherichia coli and tested for proteolytic activity in a peptide-based assay. The data strongly suggest that, first, the FIPV 3CL(pro) catalytic system employs His(41) and Cys(144) as the principal catalytic residues. Second, the amino acids Tyr(160) and His(162), which are part of the conserved sequence signature Tyr(160)-Met(161)-His(162) and are believed to be involved in substrate recognition, were found to be indispensable for proteolytic activity. Third, replacements of Gly(83) and Asn(64), which were candidates to occupy the position spatially equivalent to that of the catalytic Asp residue of chymotrypsin-like proteases, resulted in proteolytically active proteins. Surprisingly, some of the Asn(64) mutants even exhibited strongly increased activities. Similar results were obtained for human coronavirus (HCoV) 3CL(pro) mutants in which the equivalent Asn residue (HCoV 3CL(pro) Asn(64)) was substituted. These data lead us to conclude that both the catalytic systems and substrate-binding pockets of coronavirus main proteases differ from those of other RNA virus 3C and 3C-like proteases.
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- Annette Hegyi
- Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Straße 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany1
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- Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Straße 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany1
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- Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, 430 Miller Dr. Rm 228, SAIC/NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702-1201, USA2
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- Institute of Virology and Immunology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Straße 7, 97078 Würzburg, Germany1
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Lee U, Hong JS, Choi JK, Kim KC, Kim YS, Curtis IS, Nam HG, Lim PO. Broad bean wilt virus Causes Necrotic Symptoms and Generates Defective RNAs in Capsicum annuum. PHYTOPATHOLOGY 2000; 90:1390-1395. [PMID: 18943381 DOI: 10.1094/phyto.2000.90.12.1390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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ABSTRACT A virus was isolated from hot pepper (Capsicum annuum cv. Hyang Chon) growing in Korea and displaying necrotic spots or streaks on leaves and stems followed by stunting and death of plants. Morphological and host range analyses of extracts from infected plants suggested that the causal agent of disease was a Broad bean wilt virus (BBWV), and the virus was tentatively named a Korean isolate of BBWV (BBWV-K). When the isolate was back-inoculated onto hot pepper plants, it induced symptoms similar to those of naturally infected hot pepper in the field. Two coat proteins (CPs) of 44 and 22 kDa, corresponding to a large CP and a small CP, respectively, were identified from the virus, and both reacted specifically with polyclonal antibody to BBWV 2. The complete nucleotide sequences of RNA 1 and RNA 2 of the isolate were determined from cDNA clones. The deduced amino acid sequence data from the putative proteins encoded by RNA 1 and 2 of the BBWV-K indicated a closer relationship with the isolates of BBWV 2 than BBWV 1. However, sequence comparison of the 5' noncoding regions of the viruses differentiates BBWV-K from other BBWV 2 isolates. Another distinctive feature of the BBWV-K is that it generates defective RNAs in hot pepper exhibiting necrotic symptoms, which is the first report of defective RNAs in the Fabavirus genera of BBWVs.
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Li C, Yoshikawa N, Takahashi T, Ito T, Yoshida K, Koganezawa H. Nucleotide sequence and genome organization of apple latent spherical virus: a new virus classified into the family Comoviridae. J Gen Virol 2000; 81:541-7. [PMID: 10644854 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-2-541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A virus with isometric virus particles (ca. 25 nm) was isolated from an apple tree and named Apple latent spherical virus (ALSV). Virus particles purified from infected Chenopodium quinoa formed two bands with densities of 1.41 and 1.43 g/cm(3) in CsCl equilibrium density-gradient centrifugation, indicating that the virus is composed of two components. The virus had two ssRNA species (RNA1 and RNA2) and three capsid proteins (Vp25, Vp24 and Vp20). The complete nucleotide sequences of RNA1 and RNA2 were determined to be 6815 nt and 3384 nt excluding the 3' poly(A) tail, respectively. RNA1 contains two partially overlapping ORFs encoding polypeptides of molecular mass 23 kDa ('23K'; ORF1) and 235 kDa ('235K'; ORF2); RNA2 has a single ORF encoding a polypeptide of 108 kDa ('108K'). The 235K protein has, in order, consensus motifs of the protease cofactor, the NTP-binding helicase, the cysteine protease and the RNA polymerase, in good agreement with the gene arrangement of viruses in the COMOVIRIDAE: The 108K protein contains an LPL movement protein (MP) motif near the N terminus. Direct sequencing of the N-terminal amino acids of the three capsid proteins showed that Vp25, Vp20 and Vp24 are located in this order in the C-terminal region of the 108K protein. The cleavage sites of the 108K polyprotein were Q/G (MP/Vp25 and Vp25/Vp20) and E/G (Vp20/Vp24). Phylogenetic analysis of the ALSV RNA polymerase domain showed that ALSV falls into a cluster different from the nepo-, como- and fabavirus lineages.
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- C Li
- Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka 020-8550, Japan
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Clark AJ, Bertens P, Wellink J, Shanks M, Lomonossoff GP. Studies on hybrid comoviruses reveal the importance of three-dimensional structure for processing of the viral coat proteins and show that the specificity of cleavage is greater in trans than in cis. Virology 1999; 263:184-94. [PMID: 10544093 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A series of cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV)-based hybrid comoviral RNA-2 molecules have been constructed. In these, the region encoding both the large (L) and small (S) viral coat proteins was replaced by the equivalent region from bean pod mottle virus (BPMV). The hybrid RNA-2 molecules were able to replicate in cowpea protoplasts in the presence of CPMV RNA-1. Though processing of the hybrid polyproteins by the CPMV-specific 24K proteinase at the site between the 58/48K and L proteins could readily be achieved, no processing at the site between the L and S coat proteins could be obtained even when the sequence of amino acids between the two coat proteins was made CPMV-like. As a result, none of the hybrids was able to form functional virus particles, and they could not infect cowpea plants. Comparison with the processing of the L-S site in cis in reticulocyte lysates demonstrated that the requirements for processing are more stringent in trans than in cis. The results suggest that the L-S cleavage site is defined by more than just a linear sequence of amino acids and probably involves interactions between the L-S loop and the beta barrels of the viral coat proteins.
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- A J Clark
- Department of Virus Research, John Innes Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom
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Proteinases Involved in Plant Virus Genome Expression. PROTEASES OF INFECTIOUS AGENTS 1999. [PMCID: PMC7271178 DOI: 10.1016/b978-012420510-9/50037-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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This chapter discusses the proteinases involved in plant virus genome expression. The chapter focuses on virus-encoded proteinases. It gives an overall view of the use of proteolytic processing by different plant virus groups for the expression of their genomes. It also discusses that the development of full-length cDNA clones from which infectious transcripts can be produced either in vitro or in vivo, has facilitated the functional analysis of the plant virus proteinases. In spite of the high specificity of the viral proteinases, cellular substrates for animal virus proteinases have been described in this chapter. The activity of the viral proteinases can interfere with important cellular processes to favor virus replication. The recent use of proteinase inhibitors in AIDS therapy has emphasized the convenience of virus-encoded proteinases as targets of antiviral action. A mutant protein able to inhibit the activity of the TEV proteinase by manipulation of the α2-macroglobulin bait region was designed by Van Rompaey.
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Maia IG, Séron K, Haenni AL, Bernardi F. Gene expression from viral RNA genomes. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 32:367-391. [PMID: 8980488 DOI: 10.1007/bf00039391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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This review is centered on the major strategies used by plant RNA viruses to produce the proteins required for virus multiplication. The strategies at the level of transcription presented here are synthesis of mRNA or subgenomic RNAs from viral RNA templates, and 'cap-snatching'. At the level of translation, several strategies have been evolved by viruses at the steps of initiation, elongation and termination. At the initiation step, the classical scanning mode is the most frequent strategy employed by viruses; however in a vast number of cases, leaky scanning of the initiation complex allows expression of more than one protein from the same RNA sequence. During elongation, frameshift allows the formation of two proteins differing in their carboxy terminus. At the termination step, suppression of termination produces a protein with an elongated carboxy terminus. The last strategy that will be described is co- and/or post-translational cleavage of a polyprotein precursor by virally encoded proteinases. Most (+)-stranded RNA viruses utilize a combination of various strategies.
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- I G Maia
- Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
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McLain L, Durrani Z, Wisniewski LA, Porta C, Lomonossoff GP, Dimmock NJ. Stimulation of neutralizing antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in three strains of mice immunized with a 22 amino acid peptide of gp41 expressed on the surface of a plant virus. Vaccine 1996; 14:799-810. [PMID: 8817828 DOI: 10.1016/0264-410x(95)00229-t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A plant virus, cowpea mosaic virus, expressing a 22 amino acid peptide 731-752 of the gp41 glycoprotein of human immunodeficency virus type 1 (HIV-1 IIIB), was shown previously to stimulate HIV-1 cross reactive neutralizing antibodies in adult C57/BL6 mice. Here some parameters concerning the stimulation of HIV-1-specific neutralizing and ELISA antibody have been determined in adult C57/BL6, C3H/He-mg and BALB/c mice. Two injections per mouse of all CPMV-HIV/1 doses tested (100, 10 and 1 microgram chimera which contained, respectively, 1700, 170 and 17 ng HIV peptide per injection) stimulated a strong serum neutralizing antibody response in all mice. One hundred micrograms or 10 micrograms CPMV-HIV/1 per injection gave 99% neutralization of HIV-1 IIIB in C8166 cells at a serum dilution of 1/200, whereas sera from mice immunized with 1 microgram per injection neutralized virus to 97%, 79% and 63% at a 1/200 dilution of serum from C3H/He-mg, C57/BL6 and BALB/c mice, respectively. Restimulation of these mice with the same immunogen dose marginally increased the neutralization titres. The longevity of the neutralizing antibody response increased as the immunogen dose decreased, and was dependent on the strain of mouse, in the order C57/BL6C3H/He-mg BALB/c. Re-immunization with a third injection improved the longevity of the antibody response. All mice immunized with 100 micrograms CPMV-HIV/1 responded with ELISA antibody to the gp41 peptide bound in solid phase. Ten micrograms stimulated ELISA antibody in some but not all mice, while mice immunized with 1 microgram had no detectable ELISA antibody. This synthesis of ELISA antibody decreased > or = 230-fold over the range of immunogen doses tested but, in the same mice, the neutralizing antibody response decreased only twofold, showing an unusual bias to production of the latter. Neutralizing antibodies were thus stimulated at a lower immunogen dose than ELISA antibodies. Antibody which was affinity purified using the free gp41 peptide gave a good ELISA titre but did not neutralize HIV-1, suggesting that the neutralizing antibody is recognizing a conformational epitope on the gp41 oligomer.
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- L McLain
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Snijder EJ, Wassenaar AL, van Dinten LC, Spaan WJ, Gorbalenya AE. The arterivirus nsp4 protease is the prototype of a novel group of chymotrypsin-like enzymes, the 3C-like serine proteases. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:4864-71. [PMID: 8617757 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.9.4864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The replicase of equine arteritis virus, an arterivirus, is processed by at least three viral proteases. Comparative sequence analysis suggested that nonstructural protein 4 (Nsp4) is a serine protease (SP) that shares properties with chymotrypsin-like enzymes belonging to two different groups. The SP was predicted to utilize the canonical His-Asp-Ser catalytic triad found in classical chymotrypsin-like proteases. On the other hand, its putative substrate-binding region contains Thr and His residues, which are conserved in viral 3C-like cysteine proteases and determine their specificity for (Gln/Glu) downward arrow(Gly/Ala/Ser) cleavage sites. The replacement of the members of the predicted catalytic triad (His-1103, Asp-1129, and Ser-1184) confirmed their indispensability. The putative role of Thr-1179 and His-1199 in substrate recognition was also supported by the results of mutagenesis. A set of conserved candidate cleavage sites, strikingly similar to junctions cleaved by 3C-like cysteine proteases, was identified. These were tested by mutagenesis and expression of truncated replicase proteins. The results support a replicase processing model in which the SP cleaves multiple Glu downward arrow(Gly/Ser/Ala) sites. Collectively, our data characterize the arterivirus SP as a representative of a novel group of chymotrypsin-like enzymes, the 3C-like serine proteases.
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- E J Snijder
- Department of Virology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Gorbalenya AE, Snijder EJ. Viral cysteine proteinases. PERSPECTIVES IN DRUG DISCOVERY AND DESIGN : PD3 1996; 6:64-86. [PMID: 32288276 PMCID: PMC7104566 DOI: 10.1007/bf02174046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/1996] [Accepted: 06/13/1996] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Dozens of novel cysteine proteinases have been identified in positive single-stranded RNA viruses and, for the first time, in large double-stranded DNA viruses. The majority of these proteins are distantly related to papain or chymotrypsin and may be direct descendants of primordial proteolytic enzymes. Virus genome synthesis and expression, virion formation, virion entry into the host cell, as well as cellular architecture and functioning can be under the control of viral cysteine proteinases during infection. RNA virus proteinases mediate their liberation from giant multidomain precursors in which they tend to occupy conserved positions. These proteinases possess a narrow substrate specificity, can cleave in cis and in trans, and may also have additional, nonproteolytic functions. The mechanisms of catalysis, substrate recognition and RNA binding were highlighted by the recent analysis of the three-dimensional structure of the chymotrypsin-like cysteine proteinases of two RNA viruses.
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- Alexander E Gorbalenya
- 1M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, 142782 Moscow Region
- 2A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, 119899 Moscow, Russia
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- 3Department of Virology, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
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McLain L, Porta C, Lomonossoff GP, Durrani Z, Dimmock NJ. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1-neutralizing antibodies raised to a glycoprotein 41 peptide expressed on the surface of a plant virus. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 1995; 11:327-34. [PMID: 7786579 DOI: 10.1089/aid.1995.11.327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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An oligonucleotide encoding the amino acids 731-752 of the gp41 envelope protein of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 strain IIIB, which is known to induce cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies in humans, was inserted into a full-length clone of the RNA encoding the coat proteins of cowpea mosaic virus (RNA 2 of CPMV). When transfected together with RNA 1 of CPMV, transcribed RNA 2 was able to replicate in plants and form infectious virions (CPMV-HIV). Purified virions were injected subcutaneously with alum adjuvant into adult C57/BL6 mice to determine their ability to stimulate ELISA and neutralizing antibody specific for HIV-1. Antisera to CPMV-HIV obtained after only two injections gave a strong ELISA response (mean of 1:25,800) using the free gp41 peptide as antigen, showing that the gp41 peptide incorporated into the chimera was immunogenic. The same antisera gave 97% neutralization of HIV-1 IIIB at 1:100 dilution, with a highly uniform response in all (six of six) animals tested. A third injection barely increased the neutralization titer. Normal mouse serum had no neutralizing activity. Antisera also strongly neutralized the HIV-1 strains RF and SF2. ELISA and neutralizing activity to HIV-1 IIIB declined after the second injection and were undetectable after 7 weeks, but were restimulated to the same level after the third injection. Neutralization was marginally more stable after the third injection. Antibody specific for CPMV epitopes was equally short lived. A bonus of this system was unexpected neutralizing activity specifically stimulated by unmodified CPMV virions, although this amounted to no more than 10% of the neutralizing activity stimulated by the CPMV-HIV chimera.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- L McLain
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Hemmer O, Greif C, Dufourcq P, Reinbolt J, Fritsch C. Functional characterization of the proteolytic activity of the tomato black ring nepovirus RNA-1-encoded polyprotein. Virology 1995; 206:362-71. [PMID: 7831791 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(95)80051-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Translation of tomato black ring virus (TBRV) RNA-1 in a rabbit reticulocyte lysate leads to the synthesis of a 250K polyprotein which cleaves itself into smaller proteins of 50, 60, 120, and 190K. Polypeptides synthesized from synthetic transcripts corresponding to different regions of TBRV RNA-1 are processed only when they encode the 23K protein delimited earlier by sequence homology with the cowpea mosaic virus 24K protease. The proteolytic activity of this protein is completely lost by mutating residues C170 (to I) or L188 (to H), residues which align with conserved residues of the viral serine-like proteases. The 120K protein is generated by cleavage of the dipeptide K/A localized in front of the VPg but is not further cleaved in vitro at the K/S site (at the C terminus of the VPg) or between the protease and polymerase domains. However, both the protein VPgProPol (120K) and the protein ProPol (117K) produced in vitro from synthetic transcripts can cleave in trans the RNA-2-encoded 150K polyprotein, but they cannot cleave in trans polypeptides containing a cleavage site expressed from RNA-1 transcripts in which the protease cistron is absent or modified.
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- O Hemmer
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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Boniotti B, Wirblich C, Sibilia M, Meyers G, Thiel HJ, Rossi C. Identification and characterization of a 3C-like protease from rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus, a calicivirus. J Virol 1994; 68:6487-95. [PMID: 8083986 PMCID: PMC237069 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.10.6487-6495.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Expression studies conducted in vitro and in Escherichia coli led to the identification of a protease from rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV). The gene coding for this protease was found to be located in the central part of the genome preceding the putative RNA polymerase gene. It was demonstrated that the protease specifically cuts RHDV polyprotein substrates both in cis and in trans. Site-directed mutagenesis experiments revealed that the RHDV protease closely resembles the 3C proteases of picornaviruses with respect to the amino acids directly involved in the catalytic activity as well as to the role played by histidine as part of the substrate binding pocket.
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- B Boniotti
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell' Emilia, Brescia, Italy
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This chapter presents families of cysteine peptidases. The activity of all cysteine peptidases depends on a catalytic dyad of cysteine and histidine. The order of the cysteine and histidine residues (Cys/His or His/Cys) in the linear sequence differs between families and this is among the lines of evidence suggesting that cysteine peptidases have had many separate evolutionary origins. The families C1, C2, and C10 can be described as “papainlike,” and form clan CA. The papain family contains peptidases with a wide variety of activities, including endopeptidases with broad specificity, endopeptidases with narrow specificity, aminopeptidases, and peptidases with both endopeptidase and exopeptidase activities. Papain homologs are generally either lysosomal or secreted proteins. The calpain family includes the calcium-dependent cytosolic endopeptidase calpain, which is known from birds and mammals, and the product of the sol gene in Drosophila. Calpain is a complex of two peptide chains. Picornains are a family of polyprotein-processing endopeptidases from single-stranded RNA viruses. Each picornavirus has two picornains (2A and 3C).
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- N D Rawlings
- Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Dougherty WG, Semler BL. Expression of virus-encoded proteinases: functional and structural similarities with cellular enzymes. Microbiol Rev 1993; 57:781-822. [PMID: 8302216 PMCID: PMC372939 DOI: 10.1128/mr.57.4.781-822.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Many viruses express their genome, or part of their genome, initially as a polyprotein precursor that undergoes proteolytic processing. Molecular genetic analyses of viral gene expression have revealed that many of these processing events are mediated by virus-encoded proteinases. Biochemical activity studies and structural analyses of these viral enzymes reveal that they have remarkable similarities to cellular proteinases. However, the viral proteinases have evolved unique features that permit them to function in a cellular environment. In this article, the current status of plant and animal virus proteinases is described along with their role in the viral replication cycle. The reactions catalyzed by viral proteinases are not simple enzyme-substrate interactions; rather, the processing steps are highly regulated, are coordinated with other viral processes, and frequently involve the participation of other factors.
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- W G Dougherty
- Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-3804
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Zhang S, Jones MC, Barker P, Davies JW, Hull R. Molecular cloning and sequencing of coat protein-encoding cDNA of rice tungro spherical virus--a plant picornavirus. Virus Genes 1993; 7:121-32. [PMID: 8367940 DOI: 10.1007/bf01702392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Rice tungro spherical virus (RTSV) was shown to have three coat protein (CP) species by high resolution NaDodSO4-PAGE and Western blot analyses. The sequence of a coat protein-expressing cDNA clone that was identified and selected from a RTSV cDNA library showed that the insert was composed of 2823 bp with only one large open reading frame (ORF) coding for 941 amino acids. The positions of the three coat proteins were located in the putative polyprotein by N-terminal microsequencing and were shown to start at amino acids 287, 495, and 698 for CP-1, CP-2, and CP-3, respectively. The coat proteins are expressed as a polyprotein at the 5' region of the viral RNA genome, and all are cleaved at glutamine carboxy termini, presumably by picornavirus 3C-type of protease(s). Sequence comparisons of coat proteins revealed that there are high amino acid homologies between CP-2 of RTSV and VP3s of encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) and Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV). These results indicate that RTSV is a plant picornavirus.
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- S Zhang
- Department of Virus Research, John Innes Institute, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
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Chen X, Bruening G. Cloned DNA copies of cowpea severe mosaic virus genomic RNAs: infectious transcripts and complete nucleotide sequence of RNA 1. Virology 1992; 191:607-18. [PMID: 1448917 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90236-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cowpea severe mosaic virus (CPSMV) is a member of the comovirus group of messenger-sense RNA viruses with bipartite genomes, of which cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) is the type member. Full-length copies of CPSMV RNA 1 were cloned in plasmids bearing a bacteriophage T7 promoter. Previously, similar clones of CPSMV RNA 2 had been obtained. A 5'-rUAUUAAAAUUUU sequence is common to RNA 1 and RNA 2. From two RNA 1 clones and four RNA 2 clones we excised non-CPSMV sequences so as to provide templates for in vitro transcripts that have only a single guanylate preceding CPSMV RNA sequences. Transcripts from the most active RNA 1 and RNA 2 clones, when mixed, showed about 5% of the infectivity of unfractionated CPSMV RNAs from virions. The longest, 1858 codon open reading frame of the 5957 nt CPSMV RNA 1 extends from an AUG at nt 257 to a UGA termination codon at nt 5831. The calculated molecular weight of the polyprotein is 208,000. Comparisons with the available amino acid residue (aa) sequence information from the complete CPMV RNA 1 sequence and the partial sequence of red clover mottle virus RNA 1 suggest that CPSMV RNA 1 specifies the expected set of five mature proteins: 32K proteinase cofactor, 58K presumed helicase, VPg 5'-linked protein of the genomic RNAs, 24K proteinase, and 87K presumed polymerase, separated by four cleavage sites. Of the determined and deduced cleavage sites of the three RNA 1 polyproteins, only that at the 24K/87K junction has a distinct aa pair in the CPSMV polyprotein. Of the five proteins, VPg and 87K show the greatest similarity between CPSMV and CPMV, with identities of 68 and 55%, respectively. Published mutational analysis of the CPMV 24K proteinase and alignment of aa sequences from three comoviruses suggest that cysteine-168, histidine-40 and glutamic acid-77 form the catalytic triad of the CPSMV 24K proteinase. Results are discussed in the context of the resistance that some cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) lines exhibit against CPMV but not against CPSMV.
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- X Chen
- Department of Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis 95616
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Margis R, Pinck L. Effects of site-directed mutagenesis on the presumed catalytic triad and substrate-binding pocket of grapevine fanleaf nepovirus 24-kDa proteinase. Virology 1992; 190:884-8. [PMID: 1519363 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90931-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Grapevine fanleaf nepovirus (GFLV) has a bipartite plus-sense RNA genome. Its structural and functional proteins originate from polyprotein maturation by at least one virus-encoded proteinase. Here we describe the cloning of the 24-kDa proteinase cistron located between the virus-linked protein (VPg) and the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase cistron in GFLV RNA1 (nucleotides 3966 to 4622). Proteinase expressed from this clone is able to cleave GFLV polyprotein P2 in order to produce the coat protein and a 66-kDa protein which is further processed to the 38-kDa presumed movement protein. The GFLV 24-kDa proteinase sequence contains sequence similarities with other nepovirus and comovirus proteinases, particularly at the level of the conserved domains corresponding to the hypothetical catalytic triad and to the substrate-binding pocket (amino acids 192 to 200). Site-directed mutagenesis of residues His43, Glu87, and Leu197 abolished proteinase activity. Inactivation of the enzyme is also observed if the catalytic residue Cys179 was substituted by isoleucine, but replacement by a serine at the same position produced a mutant with an activity identical to that of native proteinase. All our data show that GFLV cysteine proteinase presents structure similarities to the proteinases of cowpea mosaic virus and potyviruses but is most closely related to trypsin.
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- R Margis
- Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Laboratoire de Virologie, Strasbourg, France
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Dessens JT, Lomonossoff GP. Sequence upstream of the 24K protease enhances cleavage of the cowpea mosaic virus B RNA-encoded polyprotein at the junction between the 24K and 87K proteins. Virology 1992; 189:225-32. [PMID: 1604812 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90698-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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To investigate cleavage at the junction between the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) 24K and 87K proteins, plasmids were constructed containing the sequence of bottom-component (B) RNA encoding the 110K protein plus a variable length of upstream coding sequence. Transcripts derived from these clones were translated in rabbit reticulocyte lysate and the appearance of the 87K protein was used to assess the efficiency of cleavage at the 24K-87K junction. The results show that the 110K protein, containing the contiguous sequence of the 24K and 87K proteins, is stable and that efficient cleavage at 24K-87K junction requires the presence of amino acids upstream of the 24K protease. These observations show that the 170K protein rather than the 110K protein is the precursor of the 87K protein and suggest a mechanism whereby both the B RNA-encoded 110K and 87K proteins can accumulate during infection.
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- J T Dessens
- Department of Virus Research, John Innes Institute, Norwich, United Kingdom
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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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Choi HK, Tong L, Minor W, Dumas P, Boege U, Rossmann MG, Wengler G. Structure of Sindbis virus core protein reveals a chymotrypsin-like serine proteinase and the organization of the virion. Nature 1991; 354:37-43. [PMID: 1944569 DOI: 10.1038/354037a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
Abstract
Sindbis virus consists of a nucleocapsid core surrounded by a lipid membrane through which penetrate 80 glycoprotein trimers. The structure of the core protein comprising the coat surrounding the genomic RNA has been determined. The polypeptide fold from residue 114 to residue 264 is homologous to that of chymotrypsin-like serine proteinases with catalytic residues His 141, Asp 163 and Ser 215 of the core protein positioned as in other serine proteinases. The C-terminal tryptophan remains in the P1 substrate site subsequent to the autocatalytic cis cleavage of the capsid protein, thus rendering the proteinase inactive. Model building of the Sindbis core protein dimer shows that the nucleocapsid is likely to have T = 4 quasisymmetry.
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Affiliation(s)
- H K Choi
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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