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Diller JR, Thoner TW, Ogden KM. Mammalian orthoreoviruses exhibit rare genotype variability in genome constellations. INFECTION, GENETICS AND EVOLUTION : JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2023; 110:105421. [PMID: 36871695 PMCID: PMC10112866 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2023.105421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/07/2023]
Abstract
Mammalian orthoreoviruses (reoviruses) are currently classified based on properties of the attachment protein, σ1. Four reovirus serotypes have been identified, three of which are represented by well-studied prototype human reovirus strains. Reoviruses contain ten segments of double-stranded RNA that encode 12 proteins and can reassort during coinfection. To understand the breadth of reovirus genetic diversity and its potential influence on reassortment, the sequence of the entire genome should be considered. While much is known about the prototype strains, a thorough analysis of all ten reovirus genome segment sequences has not previously been conducted. We analyzed phylogenetic relationships and nucleotide sequence conservation for each of the ten segments of more than 60 complete or nearly complete reovirus genome sequences, including those of the prototype strains. Using these relationships, we defined genotypes for each segment, with minimum nucleotide identities of 77-88% for most genotypes that contain several representative sequences. We applied segment genotypes to determine reovirus genome constellations, and we propose implementation of an updated reovirus genome classification system that incorporates genotype information for each segment. For most sequenced reoviruses, segments other than S1, which encodes σ1, cluster into a small number of genotypes and a limited array of genome constellations that do not differ greatly over time or based on animal host. However, a small number of reoviruses, including prototype strain Jones, have constellations in which segment genotypes differ from those of most other sequenced reoviruses. For these reoviruses, there is little evidence of reassortment with the major genotype. Future basic research studies that focus on the most genetically divergent reoviruses may provide new insights into reovirus biology. Analysis of available partial sequences and additional complete reovirus genome sequencing may also reveal reassortment biases, host preferences, or infection outcomes that are based on reovirus genotype.
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- Julia R Diller
- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
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Uzicanin S, Hu YW, Alsousi H, Pelchat M, Rocheleau L, Nair RC, Brown EG. Hepatitis C virus: the role of molecular mimicry in response to interferon treatment. J Med Virol 2013; 84:1571-85. [PMID: 22930505 DOI: 10.1002/jmv.23361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is one of the major causes of chronic liver disease worldwide. In order for HCV to persist, the virus must escape immune recognition or inhibit the host immune response. The NS5A protein contains the interferon sensitivity-determining region (ISDR) and is able to repress dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) thus influencing the response to interferon (IFN) therapy. Patients who respond to IFN therapy have stronger antibody reactivity against the NS5A compared to IFN non-responders. Therefore, given the possible role for the ISDR in IFN resistance and differential antibody reactivity, it is possible that variation in ISDR may be involved in viral immune escape and development of persistent HCV infection employing aspects of host mimicry. In this study, pre-treatment samples obtained from HCV infected patients were used to investigate the effect of different NS5A ISDR variants on the IFN antiviral response and their involvement in immune evasion. The NS5A was identified as a homologue of the variable region of immunoglobulins (Ig). The IFN resistant genotypes had higher levels of similarity to Ig compared to IFN sensitive genotypes. Expression of NS5A-6003 (HCV genotype 1b) and NS5A-6074 (HCV genotype 2a) was able to rescue vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) from IFN inhibition and restore luciferase activity. A correlation between Ig-like NS5A structure and also antibody response with the outcome of IFN treatment was observed.
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- Samra Uzicanin
- Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Fecek RJ, Busch R, Lin H, Pal K, Cunningham CA, Cuff CF. Production of Alexa Fluor 488-labeled reovirus and characterization of target cell binding, competence, and immunogenicity of labeled virions. J Immunol Methods 2006; 314:30-7. [PMID: 16822520 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2006] [Revised: 05/10/2006] [Accepted: 05/10/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Respiratory enteric orphan virus (reovirus) has been used to study many aspects of the biology and genetics of viruses, viral infection, pathogenesis, and the immune response to virus infection. This report describes the functional activity of virus labeled with Alexa Fluor 488, a stable fluorescent dye. Matrix assisted laser desorption-time of flight analysis indicated that Alexa Fluor 488 labeled the outer capsid proteins of reovirus. Labeled virus bound to murine L929 fibroblasts as determined by flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy, and the specificity of binding were demonstrated by competitive inhibition with non-labeled virus. Labeled reovirus induced apoptosis and cytopathic effect in infected L929 cells. Mice infected with labeled virus mounted robust serum antibody and CD8(+) T-cell responses, indicating that labeled virus retained immunogenicity in vivo. These results indicate that Alexa Fluor 488-labeled virus provides a powerful new tool to analyze reovirus infection in vitro and in vivo.
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- Ronald J Fecek
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia University, P.O. Box 9177, Morgantown, WV 26506-9177, USA
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Ebert DH, Deussing J, Peters C, Dermody TS. Cathepsin L and cathepsin B mediate reovirus disassembly in murine fibroblast cells. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:24609-17. [PMID: 11986312 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m201107200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 225] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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After attachment to receptors, reovirus virions are internalized by endocytosis and exposed to acid-dependent proteases that catalyze viral disassembly. Previous studies using the cysteine protease inhibitor E64 and a mutant cell line that does not support reovirus disassembly suggest a requirement for specific endocytic proteases in reovirus entry. This study identifies the endocytic proteases that mediate reovirus disassembly in murine fibroblast cells. Infection of both L929 cells treated with the cathepsin L inhibitor Z-Phe-Tyr(t-Bu)-diazomethyl ketone and cathepsin L-deficient mouse embryo fibroblasts resulted in inefficient proteolytic disassembly of viral outer-capsid proteins and decreased viral yields. In contrast, both L929 cells treated with the cathepsin B inhibitor CA-074Me and cathepsin B-deficient mouse embryo fibroblasts support reovirus disassembly and growth. However, removal of both cathepsin B and cathepsin L activity completely abrogates disassembly and growth of reovirus. Concordantly, cathepsin L mediates reovirus disassembly more efficiently than cathepsin B in vitro. These results demonstrate that either cathepsin L or cathepsin B is required for reovirus entry into murine fibroblasts and indicate that cathepsin L is the primary mediator of reovirus disassembly. Moreover, these findings suggest that specific endocytic proteases can determine host cell susceptibility to infection by intracellular pathogens.
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- Daniel H Ebert
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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Breun LA, Broering TJ, McCutcheon AM, Harrison SJ, Luongo CL, Nibert ML. Mammalian reovirus L2 gene and lambda2 core spike protein sequences and whole-genome comparisons of reoviruses type 1 Lang, type 2 Jones, and type 3 Dearing. Virology 2001; 287:333-48. [PMID: 11531411 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The reovirus L2 genome segment encodes the core spike protein lambda2, which mediates enzymatic reactions in 5' capping of the viral plus-strand transcripts. Complete nucleotide-sequence determinations were made for the L2 genome segments of eight mammalian reoviruses, including the prototype isolates of serotypes 1 and 2: Lang (T1L) and Jones (T2J), respectively. Each L2 segment was found to be 3912 or 3915 bases in length. Partial nucleotide-sequence determinations were also made for the 3916-base L2 segment of reovirus type 3 Dearing (T3D), the prototype isolate of serotype 3. The whole-genome sequence of reovirus T3D was reported previously. The T1L L2 analysis represents completion of the whole-genome sequence of that isolate as well. The T2J L2 analysis leaves only the sequence of the M1 segment yet to be reported from the genome of that isolate. The T2J M1 sequence made available from analysis in another lab was used for initiating whole-genome comparisons of reoviruses T1L, T2J, and T3D in this report. The nine L2 gene sequences and deduced lambda2 protein sequences were used to gain further insights into the biological variability, structure, and functions of lambda2 through comparisons of the sequences and reference to the crystal structure of core-bound lambda2. Phylogenetic comparisons suggest the presence of three evolutionary lines of divergent L2 alleles among the nine isolates. Localized regions of conserved amino acids in the lambda2 crystal structure include active-site clefts of the RNA capping enzyme domains, sites of interactions between lambda2 domains within the pentameric spike structure, and sites of interaction between lambda2 subunits and other proteins in viral particles.
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- L A Breun
- Department of Biochemistry, The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Institute for Molecular Virology, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
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Olland AM, Jané-Valbuena J, Schiff LA, Nibert ML, Harrison SC. Structure of the reovirus outer capsid and dsRNA-binding protein sigma3 at 1.8 A resolution. EMBO J 2001; 20:979-89. [PMID: 11230122 PMCID: PMC145474 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.5.979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2000] [Revised: 01/08/2001] [Accepted: 01/09/2001] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The crystallographically determined structure of the reovirus outer capsid protein sigma3 reveals a two-lobed structure organized around a long central helix. The smaller of the two lobes includes a CCHC zinc-binding site. Residues that vary between strains and serotypes lie mainly on one surface of the protein; residues on the opposite surface are conserved. From a fit of this model to a reconstruction of the whole virion from electron cryomicroscopy, we propose that each sigma3 subunit is positioned with the small lobe anchoring it to the protein mu1 on the surface of the virion, and the large lobe, the site of initial cleavages during entry-related proteolytic disassembly, protruding outwards. The surface containing variable residues faces solvent. The crystallographic asymmetric unit contains two sigma3 subunits, tightly associated as a dimer. One broad surface of the dimer has a positively charged surface patch, which extends across the dyad. In infected cells, sigma3 binds dsRNA and inhibits the interferon response. The location and extent of the positively charged surface patch suggest that the dimer is the RNA-binding form of sigma3.
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- Andrea M. Olland
- Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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- Program in Virology, Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706 and Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA Present address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA Corresponding author e-mail:
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Korth MJ, Katze MG. Evading the interferon response: hepatitis C virus and the interferon-induced protein kinase, PKR. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1999; 242:197-224. [PMID: 10592662 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-59605-6_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- M J Korth
- Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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McCutcheon AM, Broering TJ, Nibert ML. Mammalian reovirus M3 gene sequences and conservation of coiled-coil motifs near the carboxyl terminus of the microNS protein. Virology 1999; 264:16-24. [PMID: 10544126 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Nucleotide sequences of the mammalian orthoreovirus (reovirus) type 1 Lang and type 2 Jones M3 gene segments were newly determined. The nucleotide sequence of the reovirus type 3 Dearing M3 segment also was determined to compare with a previously reported M3 sequence for that isolate. Comparisons showed Lang and Dearing M3 to be more closely related than either was to Jones M3, consistent with previous findings for other reovirus gene segments. The microNS protein sequences deduced from each M3 segment were shown to be related in a similar pattern as the respective nucleotide sequences and to contain several regions of greater or less than average variability among the three isolates. Identification of conserved methionine codons near the 5' ends of the Lang, Jones, and Dearing M3 plus strands lent support to the hypothesis that microNSC, a smaller protein also encoded by M3, arises by translation initiation from a downstream methionine codon within the same open reading frame as microNS. Other analyses of the deduced protein sequences indicated that regions within the carboxyl-terminal third of microNS and microNSC from each isolate have a propensity to form alpha-helical coiled coils, most likely coiled-coil dimers. The new sequences will augment further studies on microNS and microNSC structure and function.
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- A M McCutcheon
- The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Harrison SJ, Farsetta DL, Kim J, Noble S, Broering TJ, Nibert ML. Mammalian reovirus L3 gene sequences and evidence for a distinct amino-terminal region of the lambda1 protein. Virology 1999; 258:54-64. [PMID: 10329567 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1999.9707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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To complement evidence for nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase (NTPase), RNA helicase, RNA 5' triphosphate phosphohydrolase, and nucleic acid-binding activities by the core shell protein lambda1 of mammalian orthoreoviruses (reoviruses), we determined nucleotide sequences of the lambda1-encoding L3 gene segments from three isolates: type 1 Lang (T1L), type 2 Jones (T2J), and type 3 Dearing (T3D). The T1L and T3D L3 gene sequences and deduced lambda1 protein sequences shared high levels of identity (97.7% and 99.3%, respectively). The lambda1 sequences differed at only 9 of 1275 amino acids. Two single-nucleotide insertions relative to a previously published sequence for T3D L3 extended the lambda1 open reading frame to within 60 nucleotides of the plus-strand 3' end for T3D and the other isolates sequenced, in keeping with the short 3' nontranslated regions of the other nine gene segments. Seven of the nine amino acid differences between T1L and T3D lambda1 were located within the amino-terminal 500 residues of lambda1, a region with putative sequence similarities to NTPases and RNA helicases. The T2J L3 and lambda1 sequences were found to be more divergent, especially within the amino-terminal 180 residues of lambda1, preceding the putative CCHH zinc finger motif. The T2J L3 sequence, along with partial sequences for L3 genes from three other reovirus isolates, suggested that one or more of the polymorphisms at amino acids 71, 215, 500, 1011, and/or 1100 in lambda1 contribute to the L3-determined differences in ATPase activities by T1L and T3D cores. The findings contribute to our ongoing efforts to elucidate sequence-structure-function relationships for the lambda1 core protein.
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- S J Harrison
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706, USA
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Balachandran S, Kim CN, Yeh WC, Mak TW, Bhalla K, Barber GN. Activation of the dsRNA-dependent protein kinase, PKR, induces apoptosis through FADD-mediated death signaling. EMBO J 1998; 17:6888-902. [PMID: 9843495 PMCID: PMC1171037 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.23.6888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 285] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The dsRNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) is considered to play a key role in interferon-mediated host defense against viral infection and conceivably malignant transformation. To investigate further the mechanisms of PKR-induced growth inhibition, we have developed tetracycline-inducible murine cell lines that express wild-type PKR or a catalytically inactive PKR variant, PKRdelta6. Following induction, the growth of the wild-type PKR-expressing cells was similar to that of cells transfected with vector alone, while cells expressing PKRdelta6 became malignantly transformed. Significantly, treatment with dsRNA caused the wild-type PKR-overexpressing cells to undergo programed cell death while, conversely, cells expressing PKRdelta6 were completely resistant. Our studies demonstrated that activation of PKR induces the expression of members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) family, including Fas (CD95/Apo-1) and pro-apopotic Bax. In contrast, transcripts representing Fas, TNFR-1, FADD (Fas-associated death domain), FLICE, Bad and Bax were ablated in cells expressing PKRdelta6. The involvement of the death receptors in PKR-induced apoptosis was underscored by demonstrating that murine fibroblasts lacking FADD were almost completely resistant to dsRNA-mediated cell death. Thus, PKR, a key cellular target for viral repression, is a receptor/inducer for the induction of pro-apoptotic genes by dsRNA and probably functions in interferon-mediated host defense to trigger cell death in response to virus infection and perhaps tumorigenesis.
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- S Balachandran
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Winship Cancer Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Bergeron J, Mabrouk T, Garzon S, Lemay G. Characterization of the thermosensitive ts453 reovirus mutant: increased dsRNA binding of sigma 3 protein correlates with interferon resistance. Virology 1998; 246:199-210. [PMID: 9657939 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The mutation harbored by the reovirus ts453 thermosensitive mutant has been assigned to the S4 gene encoding the major outer capsid protein sigma 3. Previous gene sequencing has identified a nonconservative amino acid substitution located near the zinc finger of sigma 3 protein in the mutant. Coexpression in COS cells of the sigma 3 protein presenting this amino acid substitution (N16K), together with the other major capsid protein mu 1, has also revealed an altered interaction between the two proteins; this altered interaction prevents the sigma 3-dependent cleavage of mu 1 to mu 1C. This could explain the lack of outer capsid assembly observed during ts453 virus infection at nonpermissive temperature. In the present study, we pursued the characterization of this mutant sigma 3 protein. Although the N16K mutation is located close to the zinc finger region, it did not affect the ability of the protein to bind zinc. In contrast, this mutation, as well as mutations within the zinc finger motif itself, can increase the binding of the protein to double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). It also appears that the N16K mutant protein is more efficiently transported to the nucleus than the wild-type protein, an observation consistent with the postulated role of dsRNA binding in sigma 3 nuclear presence. The lack of association with mu 1, and/or the increased dsRNA-binding activity of sigma 3, could be responsible for a partial resistance of the ts453 virus to interferon treatment and this could have important consequences in the context of protein synthesis regulation during natural reovirus infection.
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- J Bergeron
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- K M Coombs
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Jacobs BL, Langland JO. Reovirus sigma 3 protein: dsRNA binding and inhibition of RNA-activated protein kinase. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 233:185-96. [PMID: 9599927 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72092-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- B L Jacobs
- Department of Microbiology, Arizona State University, Tempe 85287-2701, USA
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Reovirus induces IFN, and reovirus is sensitive to the antiviral actions of IFN. The characteristics of the IFN-inducing capacity of reovirus, and the antiviral actions of IFN exerted against reovirus, are dependent upon the specific combination of reovirus strain, host cell line, and IFN type. Responses, both IFN induction and IFN action, differ quantitatively if not qualitatively and are dependent upon the virus, cell, and IFN combination. Stable natural dsRNA, identified as the form of nucleic acid that constitutes the reovirus genome, is centrally involved in the function of at least three IFN-induced enzymes. Protein phosphorylation by PKR, RNA editing by the ADAR adenosine deaminase, and RNA degradation by the 2',5'-oligoA pathway all involve dsRNA either as an effector or as a substrate. Considerable evidence implicates PKR as a particularly important contributor to the IFN-induced antiviral state displayed at the level of the single virus-infected cell, where the translation of viral mRNA is often observed to be inhibited following treatment with IFN-alpha/beta. In the whole animal infected with reovirus, elevated cellular immune responses mediated by enhanced expression of MHC class I and class II antigens induced by IFN-alpha/beta or IFN-gamma may contribute significantly to the overall antiviral response.
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- C E Samuel
- Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-9610, USA.
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Gale M, Katze MG. Molecular mechanisms of interferon resistance mediated by viral-directed inhibition of PKR, the interferon-induced protein kinase. Pharmacol Ther 1998; 78:29-46. [PMID: 9593328 DOI: 10.1016/s0163-7258(97)00165-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The interferon (IFN)-induced cellular antiviral response is the first line of defense against viral infection within an animal host. In order to establish a productive infection, eukaryotic viruses must first overcome the IFN-induced blocks imposed on viral replication. The double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR) is a key component mediating the antiviral actions of IFN. This IFN-induced protein kinase can restrict viral replication through its ability to phosphorylate the protein synthesis initiation factor eukaryotic initiation factor-2 alpha-subunit and reduce levels of viral protein synthesis. Viruses, therefore, must block the function of PKR in order to avoid these deleterious antiviral effects associated with PKR activity. Indeed, many viruses have developed effective measures to repress PKR activity during infection. This review will focus primarily on an overview of the different molecular mechanisms employed by these viruses to meet a common goal: the inhibition of PKR function, uncompromised viral protein synthesis, and unrestricted virus replication. The past few years have seen exciting new advances in this area. Rather unexpectedly, this area of research has benefited from the use of the yeast system to study PKR. Other recent advances include studies on PKR regulation by the herpes simplex viruses and data from our laboratory on the medically important hepatitis C viruses. We speculate that IFN is ineffective as a therapeutic agent against hepatitis C virus because the virus can effectively repress PKR function. Finally, we will discuss briefly the future directions of this PKR field.
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- M Gale
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Danis C, Mabrouk T, Faure M, Lemay G. Interferon has no protective effect during acute or persistent reovirus infection of mouse SC1 fibroblasts. Virus Res 1997; 51:139-49. [PMID: 9498612 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1702(97)00088-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Mouse SC1 fibroblasts can support reovirus multiplication although they exhibit a partial resistance to viral-induced cytopathology; a significant percentage of infected SC1 cells can remain viable while becoming persistently infected by the virus. In the present study, the possible role of interferon on the fate of reovirus-infected cells was investigated. Treatment of mouse L fibroblasts with beta-interferon resulted in a reduced viral efficiency of plating while essentially no effect was observed on SC1 cells; the results were similar with the unrelated encephalomyocarditis virus. This suggests that the interferon-regulated pathways are somehow deficient in SC1 cells even though these cells do respond to interferon treatment, as evidenced by an increase in the level of active interferon-inducible protein kinase double-stranded RNA-dependent (PKR) enzyme. Persistently infected SC1 cells constitutively release interferon even though treatment with anti-interferon antiserum suggests that interferon presence is unrelated to maintenance of the persistent state. The possible significance of the correlation between the lack of interferon-induced antiviral effect and relative resistance of SC1 cells to viral-induced cytopathology is briefly discussed.
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- C Danis
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Yin HS, Shieh HK, Lee LH. Characterization of the double-stranded RNA genome segment S3 of avian reovirus. J Virol Methods 1997; 67:93-101. [PMID: 9274822 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-0934(97)00080-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The double-stranded RNA genome segment S3 of avian reovirus (ARV) S1133 was cloned following polyadenylation of both strands and cDNA synthesis of S3 RNA. The complete segment S3 nucleotide sequence was determined. S3 is 1196 base pairs long with one long open reading frame (ORF). The ORF possesses the AUG initiation codon in an optimum context for translation and starts at the first initiation codon (residue 24) and extends for 367 codons, sufficient to encode a protein of the same size as the known S3 gene product, protein sigmaB, one of the major outer capsid proteins of avian reovirus (Mr 41471). Protein sigmaB was subsequently expressed in Escherichia coli. The expressed protein sigmaB was indistinguishable from virion protein sigmaB as judged by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblot assay, and N-terminal amino acid sequencing of several peptides generated by Staphyloccus aureus V8 protease digestion. ARV S3 genome segment possesses a pentanucleotide UCAUC at the 3'-terminus of its plus strand. The pentanucleotide sequence is common to the other genome segment S1 of ARV and to ten genome segments of mammalian reovirus at the 3'-terminus of their plus strands. Amino acid sequence analysis revealed that ARV sigmaB does not contain a repeated basic amino acid motif as do the three serotypes of mammalian reovirus. The results of amino acid sequencing suggest that the most susceptible cleavage sites of sigmaB to V8 protease are located in a hydrophilic area between amino acids 95 and 140.
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- H S Yin
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
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Gale MJ, Korth MJ, Tang NM, Tan SL, Hopkins DA, Dever TE, Polyak SJ, Gretch DR, Katze MG. Evidence that hepatitis C virus resistance to interferon is mediated through repression of the PKR protein kinase by the nonstructural 5A protein. Virology 1997; 230:217-27. [PMID: 9143277 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 605] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major cause of non-A non-B hepatitis and a leading cause of liver dysfunction worldwide. While the current therapy for chronic HCV infection is parenteral administration of type 1 interferon (IFN), only a fraction of HCV-infected individuals completely respond to treatment. Previous studies have correlated the IFN sensitivity of strain HCV-1b with mutations within a discrete region of the viral nonstructural 5A protein (NS5A), termed the interferon sensitivity determining region (ISDR), suggesting that NS5A may contribute to the IFN-resistant phenotype of HCV. To determine the importance of HCV NS5A and the NS5A ISDR in mediating HCV IFN resistance, we tested whether the NS5A protein could regulate the IFN-induced protein kinase, PKR, a mediator of IFN-induced antiviral resistance and a target of viral and cellular inhibitors. Using multiple approaches, including biochemical, transfection, and yeast genetics analyses, we can now report that NS5A represses PKR through a direct interaction with the protein kinase catalytic domain and that both PKR repression and interaction requires the ISDR. Thus, inactivation of PKR may be one mechanism by which HCV avoids the antiviral effects of IFN. Finally the inhibition of the PKR protein kinase, by NS5A is the first described function for this HCV protein.
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- M J Gale
- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA
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Tang NM, Ho CY, Katze MG. The 58-kDa cellular inhibitor of the double stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase requires the tetratricopeptide repeat 6 and DnaJ motifs to stimulate protein synthesis in vivo. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:28660-6. [PMID: 8910500 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.45.28660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Double stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) is a double stranded RNA-activated, interferon-induced serine-threonine kinase that participates in both the antiviral and antiproliferative properties of interferon. We previously found that influenza virus inhibited PKR function by recruiting or activating a cellular inhibitor termed P58(IPK). The present study was undertaken to complement our earlier analyses, which demonstrated that P58(IPK) efficiently inhibited PKR autophosphorylation and activity in vitro. We now report that P58(IPK) down-regulates PKR and, in turn, stimulates protein synthetic rates inside the cell. Using transfection analysis, we show that P58(IPK) stimulates translation of secreted embryonic alkaline phosphatase reporter gene mRNA. Furthermore, we found that at least two regions of the P58(IPK) molecule were required for PKR inhibitory activity in COS-1 cells: (i) the DnaJ similarity region at the carboxyl terminus (amino acids 391-504); and (ii) the tetratricopeptide repeat 6 (TPR6) domain (amino acids 222-255) located in the middle of the P58(IPK) protein and within the eukaryotic protein synthesis initiation factor 2alpha homology region. P58(IPK) variants lacking either one of these regions were unable to stimulate secreted embryonic alkaline phosphatase protein synthetic rates. Consistent with this data is the observation that the DeltaTPR6 mutant (the P58(IPK) variant lacking the TPR6 motif) failed to block PKR activity in vitro. Based on these data and our earlier in vitro functional and PKR-P58(IPK) binding analyses, a revised model of PKR regulation by P58(IPK) is presented.
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- N M Tang
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
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Yue Z, Shatkin AJ. Regulated, stable expression and nuclear presence of reovirus double-stranded RNA-binding protein sigma3 in HeLa cells. J Virol 1996; 70:3497-501. [PMID: 8648682 PMCID: PMC190223 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.6.3497-3501.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Reovirus genome segment S4 codes for polypeptide sigma3, a major outer capsid component of virions and a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding protein implicated in viral cytopathogenesis. We have constructed a stable HeLa cell line (S4tTA) that produces functional sigma3 under tetracycline transactivator control. In the absence of tetracycline, S4tTA cells synthesized stable dsRNA-binding sigma3 that accumulated in the nucleus as well as in the cytoplasm. However, in induced S4tTA cells also expressing reovirus outer shell polypeptide mu1/mu1C, migration of sigma3 into the nucleus was blocked, probably as a result of formation of a complex with mu1/mu1C which was exclusively in the cytoplasm. Mutant analyses indicated a correlation between dsRNA-binding activity and nuclear entry of sigma3, suggesting an additional role(s) for this capsid protein in virus-cell interactions.
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- Z Yue
- Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA
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Wang Q, Bergeron J, Mabrouk T, Lemay G. Site-directed mutagenesis of the double-stranded RNA binding domain of bacterially-expressed sigma 3 reovirus protein. Virus Res 1996; 41:141-51. [PMID: 8738173 DOI: 10.1016/0168-1702(96)01281-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The affinity of the reovirus sigma 3 protein for double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is well established, and efforts have been made to identify the amino acids involved in this property. In the present study, we further examined the importance of two basic amino acids motifs, located in the carboxy-terminal third of the protein. Mutants, previously characterized in COS cells, were expressed in bacterial cells using the pET expression system. The capability of the different mutants to interact with dsRNA was then determined by the binding of radiolabeled dsRNA to proteins resolved by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and transferred to nitrocellulose filters. It appears that the most carboxy-terminal motif is absolutely required for the binding but the second motif also contributes to this property. However, only the carboxy-terminal motif is required for normal binding upon removal of the amino-terminal domain of the protein by proteolytic cleavage, a procedure previously shown to increase dsRNA-binding. The basic charges in both motifs are important, while breaking of their potential to adopt an alpha helical configuration does not affect binding efficiency. Furthermore, alanine substitution of a single basic amino acid in the carboxy-terminal motif can be sufficient to strongly reduce the binding of dsRNA to the protein. Altogether, these data suggest that basic amino acids of the sigma 3 carboxy-terminal motif are directly involved in dsRNA binding, while the other basic motif may contribute by preventing an inhibitory effect of the amino-terminal portion of the protein.
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- Q Wang
- Départment de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Joklik WK, Roner MR. Molecular recognition in the assembly of the segmented reovirus genome. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1996; 53:249-81. [PMID: 8650305 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)60147-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- W K Joklik
- Department of Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Mabrouk T, Danis C, Lemay G. Two basic motifs of reovirus sigma 3 protein are involved in double-stranded RNA binding. Biochem Cell Biol 1995; 73:137-45. [PMID: 7576487 DOI: 10.1139/o95-017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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It has been reported that the sigma 3 protein of reovirus can exert an inhibitory effect on the cellular double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) activated protein kinase. Activation of this kinase is thought to be a general mechanism mediating a cellular antiviral response. This enzyme can also be activated upon transfection, resulting in translational inhibition of plasmid-encoded mRNAs. sigma 3 has an affinity for dsRNA postulated to be responsible for antikinase activity. In the present study, site-directed mutagenesis was performed on two basic regions previously suggested as dsRNA-binding motifs and the mutant sigma 3 proteins were then expressed in COS cells. These experiments revealed that both motifs are involved in sigma 3 attachment to RNA. Expression of the mutants lacking RNA-binding capability is stimulated by coexpression of another dsRNA-binding protein, the E3L vaccinia virus protein. These results support a model in which the attachment to dsRNA is directly responsible for the trans-stimulating effect of sigma 3 on expression of cotransfected genes.
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- T Mabrouk
- Département de microbiologie et immunologie, Université de Montréal, Canada
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Kedl R, Schmechel S, Schiff L. Comparative sequence analysis of the reovirus S4 genes from 13 serotype 1 and serotype 3 field isolates. J Virol 1995; 69:552-9. [PMID: 7527088 PMCID: PMC188609 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.1.552-559.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The reovirus sigma 3 protein is a major outer capsid protein that may function to regulate translation within infected cells. To facilitate the understanding of sigma 3 structure and functions and the evolution of mammalian reoviruses, we sequenced cDNA copies of the S4 genes from 10 serotype 3 and 3 serotype 1 reovirus field isolates and compared these sequences with sequences of prototypic strains of the three reovirus serotypes. We found that the sigma 3 proteins are highly conserved: the two longest conserved regions contain motifs proposed to function in binding zinc and double-stranded RNA. We used the 16 viral isolates to investigate the hypothesis that structural interactions between sigma 3 and the cell attachment protein, sigma 1, constrain their evolution and to identify a determinant within sigma 3 that is in close proximity to the sigma 1 hemagglutination site.
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- R Kedl
- Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455
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Previously, we showed that the M1 gene (encoding a viral core protein, mu 2, whose function is unknown) was associated with the efficiently myocarditic phenotype of a reovirus variant, 8B. Here, we have extended our genetic analysis of 8B and conducted genetic analyses of two other reovirus strains (T1L [serotype 1 strain Lang] and Abney). Our results demonstrate that multiple viral core proteins are determinants of reovirus-induced myocarditis. In contrast to our previous association of mu 2 with induction of myocarditis, this provides strong evidence that a core function achieved through the interaction of multiple core proteins is responsible for induction of the disease.
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- B Sherry
- Department of Microbiology, Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27606
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Mabrouk T, Lemay G. Mutations in a CCHC zinc-binding motif of the reovirus sigma 3 protein decrease its intracellular stability. J Virol 1994; 68:5287-90. [PMID: 8035527 PMCID: PMC236476 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.8.5287-5290.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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It has been demonstrated that the sigma 3 protein of reovirus harbors a zinc-binding domain in its amino-terminal portion. A putative zinc finger in the CCHH form is located in this domain and was considered to be a good candidate for the zinc-binding motif. We performed site-directed mutagenesis to substitute amino acids in this region and demonstrated that many of these mutants, although expressed in COS cells, were unstable compared with the wild-type protein. Further analysis revealed that zinc-binding capability, as measured by retention on a zinc chelate affinity adsorbent, correlates with stability. These studies also allowed us to identify a CCHC box as the most probable zinc-binding motif.
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- T Mabrouk
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Chapell JD, Goral MI, Rodgers SE, dePamphilis CW, Dermody TS. Sequence diversity within the reovirus S2 gene: reovirus genes reassort in nature, and their termini are predicted to form a panhandle motif. J Virol 1994; 68:750-6. [PMID: 8289378 PMCID: PMC236511 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.68.2.750-756.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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To better understand genetic diversity within mammalian reoviruses, we determined S2 nucleotide and deduced sigma 2 amino acid sequences of nine reovirus strains and compared these sequences with those of prototype strains of the three reovirus serotypes. The S2 gene and sigma 2 protein are highly conserved among the four type 1, one type 2, and seven type 3 strains studied. Phylogenetic analyses based on S2 nucleotide sequences of the 12 reovirus strains indicate that diversity within the S2 gene is independent of viral serotype. Additionally, we found marked topological differences between phylogenetic trees generated from S1 and S2 gene nucleotide sequences of the seven type 3 strains. These results demonstrate that reovirus S1 and S2 genes have distinct evolutionary histories, thus providing phylogenetic evidence for lateral transfer of reovirus genes in nature. When variability among the 12 sigma 2-encoding S2 nucleotide sequences was analyzed at synonymous positions, we found that approximately 60 nucleotides at the 5' terminus and 30 nucleotides at the 3' terminus were markedly conserved in comparison with other sigma 2-encoding regions of S2. Predictions of RNA secondary structures indicate that the more conserved S2 sequences participate in the formation of an extended region of duplex RNA interrupted by a pair of stem-loops. Among the 12 deduced sigma 2 amino acid sequences examined, substitutions were observed at only 11% of amino acid positions. This finding suggests that constraints on the structure or function of sigma 2, perhaps in part because of its location in the virion core, have limited sequence diversity within this protein.
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- J D Chapell
- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee 37232-2581
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Dryden KA, Wang G, Yeager M, Nibert ML, Coombs KM, Furlong DB, Fields BN, Baker TS. Early steps in reovirus infection are associated with dramatic changes in supramolecular structure and protein conformation: analysis of virions and subviral particles by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction. J Cell Biol 1993; 122:1023-41. [PMID: 8394844 PMCID: PMC2119633 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.122.5.1023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Three structural forms of type 1 Lang reovirus (virions, intermediate subviral particles [ISVPs], and cores) have been examined by cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM) and image reconstruction at 27 to 32-A resolution. Analysis of the three-dimensional maps and known biochemical composition allows determination of capsid protein location, globular shape, stoichiometry, quaternary organization, and interactions with adjacent capsid proteins. Comparisons of the virion, ISVP and core structures and examination of difference maps reveal dramatic changes in supra-molecular structure and protein conformation that are related to the early steps of reovirus infection. The intact virion (approximately 850-A diam) is designed for environmental stability in which the dsRNA genome is protected not only by tight sigma 3-mu 1, lambda 2-sigma 3, and lambda 2-mu 1 interactions in the outer capsid but also by a densely packed core shell formed primarily by lambda 1 and sigma 2. The segmented genome appears to be packed in a liquid crystalline fashion at radii < 240 A. Depending on viral growth conditions, virions undergo cleavage by enteric or endosomal/lysosomal proteases, to generate the activated ISVP (approximately 800-A diam). This transition involves the release of an outer capsid layer spanning radii from 360 to 427 A that is formed by 60 tetrameric and 60 hexameric clusters of ellipsoidal subunits of sigma 3. The vertex-associated cell attachment protein, sigma 1, also undergoes a striking change from a poorly visualized, more compact form, to an extended, flexible fiber. This conformational change may maximize interactions of sigma 1 with cell surface receptors. Transcription of viral mRNAs is mediated by the core particle (approximately 600-A diam), generated from the ISVP after penetration and uncoating. The transition from ISVP to core involves release of the 12 sigma 1 fibers and the remaining outer capsid layer formed by 200 trimers of rod-shaped mu 1 subunits that span radii from 306 to 395 A. In the virion and ISVP, flower-shaped pentamers of the lambda 2 protein are centered at the vertices. In the ISVP-to-core transition, domains of the lambda 2 subunits rotate and swing upward and outward to form a turret-like structure extending from radii 305 to 400 A, with a diameter of 184 A, and a central channel 84 A wide. This novel conformational change allows the potential diffusion of substrates for transcription and exit of newly synthesized mRNA segments.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Capsid/chemistry
- Capsid/genetics
- Capsid/ultrastructure
- Cells, Cultured
- Cold Temperature
- DNA, Viral/analysis
- DNA, Viral/genetics
- Fibroblasts/cytology
- Fibroblasts/microbiology
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- Macromolecular Substances
- Mice
- Microscopy, Electron/methods
- Protein Conformation
- RNA, Double-Stranded/analysis
- RNA, Double-Stranded/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Viral/analysis
- RNA, Viral/genetics
- Reoviridae/chemistry
- Reoviridae/genetics
- Reoviridae/ultrastructure
- Reoviridae Infections/metabolism
- Reoviridae Infections/physiopathology
- Transcription, Genetic
- Viral Core Proteins/chemistry
- Viral Core Proteins/genetics
- Viral Core Proteins/ultrastructure
- Virion/chemistry
- Virion/genetics
- Virion/ultrastructure
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- K A Dryden
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Lloyd RM, Shatkin AJ. Translational stimulation by reovirus polypeptide sigma 3: substitution for VAI RNA and inhibition of phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2. J Virol 1992; 66:6878-84. [PMID: 1433498 PMCID: PMC240298 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.12.6878-6884.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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COS cells transfected with plasmids that activate DAI depend on expression of virus-associated I (VAI) RNA to prevent the inhibitory effects of the alpha subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF-2 alpha) kinase (DAI) and restore the translation of vector-derived dihydrofolate reductase mRNA. This VAI RNA requirement could be completely replaced by reovirus polypeptide sigma 3, consistent with its double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding activity. S4 gene transfection of 293 cells also partially restored adenovirus protein synthesis after infection with the VAI-negative dl331 mutant. In dl331-infected 293 cells, eIF-2 alpha was present mainly in the acidic, phosphorylated form, and trans complementation with polypeptide sigma 3 or VAI RNA decreased the proportion of eIF-2 alpha (P) from approximately 85 to approximately 30%. Activation of DAI by addition of dsRNA to extracts of S4 DNA-transfected COS cells required 10-fold-higher levels of dsRNA than extracts made from cells that were not producing polypeptide sigma 3. In extracts of reovirus-infected mouse L cells, the concentration of dsRNA needed to activate DAI was dependent on the viral serotype used for the infection. Although the proportion of eIF-2 alpha (P) was greater than that in uninfected cells, most of the factor remained in the unphosphorylated form, even at 16 h after infection, consistent with the partial inhibition of host protein synthesis observed with all three viral serotypes. The results indicate that reovirus polypeptide sigma 3 participates in the regulation of protein synthesis by modulating DAI and eIF-2 alpha phosphorylation.
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- R M Lloyd
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-5638
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Thomis DC, Samuel CE. Mechanism of interferon action: autoregulation of RNA-dependent P1/eIF-2 alpha protein kinase (PKR) expression in transfected mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1992; 89:10837-41. [PMID: 1279695 PMCID: PMC50437 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.89.22.10837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [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 expression of a molecular cDNA clone (P1 KIN) of the human RNA-dependent P1/eIF-2 alpha protein kinase (PKR) was examined in transfected monkey cells and in cell-free protein-synthesizing systems. Expression of the wild-type (wt) P1 KIN cDNA, which encodes an active protein kinase, was compared with that of the phosphotransfer catalytic domain II Lys-296-->Arg (K296R) mutant cDNA, which does not encode an active kinase. wt and K296R mutant P1 mRNAs prepared by transcription in vitro with T7 RNA polymerase programmed the cell-free synthesis of P1 ribosome-associated protein with comparable efficiency in the rabbit reticulocyte system. The K296R mutant P1 protein was also efficiently synthesized in vivo in transfected COS monkey cells. However, synthesis of the wt P1 protein was reduced about 30-fold in transfected COS cells as compared with the K296R mutant P1 protein. Cotransfection of wt P1 KIN cDNA with either K296R mutant P1 KIN cDNA or reovirus S4 cDNA greatly reduced the synthesis of K296R mutant P1 protein and reovirus sigma 3 protein, respectively. Although the wt and K296R mutant P1 KIN plasmid expression vectors replicated with comparable efficiencies in COS cells, the steady-state amount of P1 mRNA was about 3-fold less in COS cells transfected with the wt as compared with the K296R mutant P1 KIN cDNA. These results suggest that RNA-dependent P1 protein kinase expression is autoregulated in vivo in transfected mammalian cells primarily at the level of translation by a mechanism that is likely dependent upon catalytically active P1 kinase.
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- D C Thomis
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106
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Danis C, Garzon S, Lemay G. Further characterization of the ts453 mutant of mammalian orthoreovirus serotype 3 and nucleotide sequence of the mutated S4 gene. Virology 1992; 190:494-8. [PMID: 1529549 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)91241-l] [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: 12/27/2022]
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The sigma 3 protein of mammalian orthoreoviruses has multiple proven and postulated roles during viral multiplication. In this manuscript we took advantage of the availability of the ts453 thermosensitive mutant, already assigned to the S4 gene encoding sigma 3, to begin the elucidation of the relationship between the two main domains and the different roles of the sigma 3 viral protein. The alteration in the mutant appeared to affect the structural role of the protein. Nucleotide sequence determination indicated an especially significant change close to the zinc finger of the protein. These data suggest that the zinc-binding region might be especially important during the assembly of sigma 3 into the viral capsid.
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- C Danis
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Miller JE, Samuel CE. Proteolytic cleavage of the reovirus sigma 3 protein results in enhanced double-stranded RNA-binding activity: identification of a repeated basic amino acid motif within the C-terminal binding region. J Virol 1992; 66:5347-56. [PMID: 1501278 PMCID: PMC289090 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.9.5347-5356.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The reovirus capsid protein sigma 3 was examined for double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-binding activity by Northwestern (RNA-protein) blot analysis. Treatment of virion-derived sigma 3 protein with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease led to an increase in the dsRNA-binding activity associated with the C-terminal fragment of the protein. Recombinant C-terminal fragments of the sigma 3 protein were expressed in Escherichia coli from the S4 cDNA of reovirus serotype 1. These truncated sigma 3 proteins displayed proteolytic processing and dsRNA-binding activity similar to those observed for native, virion-derived sigma 3 protein as measured by Northwestern blot analysis. Construction of a modified pET3c vector, pET3Exo, allowed the production of 3'-terminal deletions of the S4 cDNA by using exonuclease III and rapid screening of the induced truncated sigma 3 proteins. An 85-amino-acid domain within the C-terminal portion of the sigma 3 protein which was responsible for dsRNA-binding activity was identified. The 85-amino-acid domain possessed a repeated basic amino acid motif which was conserved in all three serotypes of reovirus. Deletion of one of the basic motifs, predicted to be an amphipathic alpha-helix, destroyed dsRNA-binding activity.
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- J E Miller
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106
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Tillotson L, Shatkin AJ. Reovirus polypeptide sigma 3 and N-terminal myristoylation of polypeptide mu 1 are required for site-specific cleavage to mu 1C in transfected cells. J Virol 1992; 66:2180-6. [PMID: 1548757 PMCID: PMC289010 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.66.4.2180-2186.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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N-myristoylated viral polypeptide mu 1 was produced in COS cells transfected with a transient expression vector containing a DNA copy of the reovirus M2 gene. The mu 1 product was specifically cleaved to polypeptide mu 1C in cells that were cotransfected with the reovirus S4 gene and that expressed polypeptide sigma 3. Studies with site-specific mutants of the M2 gene demonstrated that conversion of mu 1 to mu 1C was dependent on myristoylation and the presence of the proteolytic cleavage sequence asparagine 42-proline 43 in mu 1, as well as on the presence of polypeptide sigma 3. The mu 1C product and polypeptide sigma 3 formed complexes that were immunoprecipitated by sigma 3-directed antibody, and a myristoylation-negative M2 double mutant, G2A-N42T, yielded mu 1 that did not undergo cleavage to mu 1C or bind sigma 3. However, the N42T single mutant did form immunoprecipitable complexes with sigma 3, indicating that binding can occur in the absence of cleavage. Polypeptide sigma 3 alternatively can bind double-stranded RNA and in COS cells stimulates translation of reporter chloramphenicol acetyltransferase mRNA translation, presumably by blocking double-stranded RNA-mediated activation of the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha subunit kinase which inhibits the initiation of protein synthesis. Consistent with these observations and with the formation of mu 1C-sigma 3 complexes, coexpression of M2 with S4 DNA prevented the translational stimulatory effect of polypeptide sigma 3.
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- L Tillotson
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-5638
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Samuel CE. Role of the RNA-dependent protein kinase in the regulated expression of genes in transfected cells. Pharmacol Ther 1992; 54:307-17. [PMID: 1465480 DOI: 10.1016/0163-7258(92)90005-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
The RNA-dependent P1/eIF-2 alpha protein kinase is a highly specific protein-serine/threonine kinase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of protein synthesis initiation factor eIF-2. The kinase plays a central role in translational control. The activity of the kinase is regulated by a variety of naturally occurring effector RNAs which bind to the regulatory domain of the enzyme. Certain RNAs are able to activate the eIF-2 alpha kinase activity inherent within protein P1, a process which involves an autophosphorylation of protein P1, whereas other RNAs are able to antagonize the activation process. Translational repression mediated by the kinase may also be disrupted by RNA binding proteins that sequester activator double-stranded RNAs and by site-directed mutants and homologs of the eIF-2 alpha translation factor substrate. The P1/eIF-2 alpha protein kinase is an important regulator of the translation of plasmid-derived mRNAs in transfected eukaryotic cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- C E Samuel
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106
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