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DeAntoneo C, Danthi P, Balachandran S. Reovirus Activated Cell Death Pathways. Cells 2022; 11:cells11111757. [PMID: 35681452 PMCID: PMC9179526 DOI: 10.3390/cells11111757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Revised: 05/18/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Mammalian orthoreoviruses (ReoV) are non-enveloped viruses with segmented double-stranded RNA genomes. In humans, ReoV are generally considered non-pathogenic, although members of this family have been proven to cause mild gastroenteritis in young children and may contribute to the development of inflammatory conditions, including Celiac disease. Because of its low pathogenic potential and its ability to efficiently infect and kill transformed cells, the ReoV strain Type 3 Dearing (T3D) is clinical trials as an oncolytic agent. ReoV manifests its oncolytic effects in large part by infecting tumor cells and activating programmed cell death pathways (PCDs). It was previously believed that apoptosis was the dominant PCD pathway triggered by ReoV infection. However, new studies suggest that ReoV also activates other PCD pathways, such as autophagy, pyroptosis, and necroptosis. Necroptosis is a caspase-independent form of PCD reliant on receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 3 (RIPK3) and its substrate, the pseudokinase mixed-lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL). As necroptosis is highly inflammatory, ReoV-induced necroptosis may contribute to the oncolytic potential of this virus, not only by promoting necrotic lysis of the infected cell, but also by inflaming the surrounding tumor microenvironment and provoking beneficial anti-tumor immune responses. In this review, we summarize our current understanding of the ReoV replication cycle, the known and potential mechanisms by which ReoV induces PCD, and discuss the consequences of non-apoptotic cell death—particularly necroptosis—to ReoV pathogenesis and oncolysis.
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- Carly DeAntoneo
- Blood Cell Development and Function Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA;
- Molecular and Cellular Biology and Genetics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA;
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- Blood Cell Development and Function Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA;
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Koehler M, Petitjean SJL, Yang J, Aravamudhan P, Somoulay X, Lo Giudice C, Poncin MA, Dumitru AC, Dermody TS, Alsteens D. Reovirus directly engages integrin to recruit clathrin for entry into host cells. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2149. [PMID: 33846319 PMCID: PMC8041799 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22380-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Reovirus infection requires the concerted action of viral and host factors to promote cell entry. After interaction of reovirus attachment protein σ1 with cell-surface carbohydrates and proteinaceous receptors, additional host factors mediate virus internalization. In particular, β1 integrin is required for endocytosis of reovirus virions following junctional adhesion molecule A (JAM-A) binding. While integrin-binding motifs in the surface-exposed region of reovirus capsid protein λ2 are thought to mediate integrin interaction, evidence for direct β1 integrin-reovirus interactions and knowledge of how integrins function to mediate reovirus entry is lacking. Here, we use single-virus force spectroscopy and confocal microscopy to discover a direct interaction between reovirus and β1 integrins. Comparison of interactions between reovirus disassembly intermediates as well as mutants and β1 integrin show that λ2 is the integrin ligand. Finally, using fluidic force microscopy, we demonstrate a functional role for β1 integrin interaction in promoting clathrin recruitment to cell-bound reovirus. Our study demonstrates a direct interaction between reovirus and β1 integrins and offers insights into the mechanism of reovirus cell entry. These results provide new perspectives for the development of efficacious antiviral therapeutics and the engineering of improved viral gene delivery and oncolytic vectors.
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- Melanie Koehler
- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA ,grid.239553.b0000 0000 9753 0008Institute of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA ,grid.239553.b0000 0000 9753 0008Institute of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA ,grid.239553.b0000 0000 9753 0008Institute of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA ,grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ,grid.509491.0Walloon Excellence in Life sciences and Biotechnology (WELBIO), Wavre, Belgium
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Kniert J, Lin QF, Shmulevitz M. Captivating Perplexities of Spinareovirinae 5' RNA Caps. Viruses 2021; 13:v13020294. [PMID: 33668598 PMCID: PMC7918360 DOI: 10.3390/v13020294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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RNAs with methylated cap structures are present throughout multiple domains of life. Given that cap structures play a myriad of important roles beyond translation, such as stability and immune recognition, it is not surprising that viruses have adopted RNA capping processes for their own benefit throughout co-evolution with their hosts. In fact, that RNAs are capped was first discovered in a member of the Spinareovirinae family, Cypovirus, before these findings were translated to other domains of life. This review revisits long-past knowledge and recent studies on RNA capping among members of Spinareovirinae to help elucidate the perplex processes of RNA capping and functions of RNA cap structures during Spinareovirinae infection. The review brings to light the many uncertainties that remain about the precise capping status, enzymes that facilitate specific steps of capping, and the functions of RNA caps during Spinareovirinae replication.
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Danthi P, Guglielmi KM, Kirchner E, Mainou B, Stehle T, Dermody TS. From touchdown to transcription: the reovirus cell entry pathway. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 2011; 343:91-119. [PMID: 20397070 PMCID: PMC4714703 DOI: 10.1007/82_2010_32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Mammalian orthoreoviruses (reoviruses) are prototype members of the Reoviridae family of nonenveloped viruses. Reoviruses contain ten double-stranded RNA gene segments enclosed in two concentric protein shells, outer capsid and core. These viruses serve as a versatile experimental system for studies of virus cell entry, innate immunity, and organ-specific disease. Reoviruses engage cells by binding to cell-surface carbohydrates and the immunoglobulin superfamily member, junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A). JAM-A is a homodimer formed by extensive contacts between its N-terminal immunoglobulin-like domains. Reovirus attachment protein σ1 disrupts the JAM-A dimer, engaging a single JAM-A molecule by virtually the same interface used for JAM-A homodimerization. Following attachment to JAM-A and carbohydrate, reovirus internalization is promoted by β1 integrins, most likely via clathrin-dependent endocytosis. In the endocytic compartment, reovirus outer-capsid protein σ3 is removed by cathepsin proteases, which exposes the viral membrane-penetration protein, μ1. Proteolytic processing and conformational rearrangements of μ1 mediate endosomal membrane rupture and delivery of transcriptionally active reovirus core particles into the host cell cytoplasm. These events also allow the φ cleavage fragment of μ1 to escape into the cytoplasm where it activates NF-κB and elicits apoptosis. This review will focus on mechanisms of reovirus cell entry and activation of innate immune response signaling pathways.
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- Pranav Danthi
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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Broome virus, a new fusogenic Orthoreovirus species isolated from an Australian fruit bat. Virology 2010; 402:26-40. [PMID: 20350736 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.11.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2009] [Revised: 10/16/2009] [Accepted: 11/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This report describes the discovery and characterization of a new fusogenic orthoreovirus, Broome virus (BroV), isolated from a little red flying-fox (Pteropus scapulatus). The BroV genome consists of 10 dsRNA segments, each having a 3' terminal pentanucleotide sequence conserved amongst all members of the genus Orthoreovirus, and a unique 5' terminal pentanucleotide sequence. The smallest genome segment is bicistronic and encodes two small nonstructural proteins, one of which is a novel fusion associated small transmembrane (FAST) protein responsible for syncytium formation, but no cell attachment protein. The low amino acid sequence identity between BroV proteins and those of other orthoreoviruses (13-50%), combined with phylogenetic analyses of structural and nonstructural proteins provide evidence to support the classification of BroV in a new sixth species group within the genus Orthoreovirus.
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Murray KE, Nibert ML. Guanidine hydrochloride inhibits mammalian orthoreovirus growth by reversibly blocking the synthesis of double-stranded RNA. J Virol 2007; 81:4572-84. [PMID: 17301147 PMCID: PMC1900160 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02106-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Millimolar concentrations of guanidine hydrochloride (GuHCl) are known to inhibit the replication of many plant and animal viruses having positive-sense RNA genomes. For example, GuHCl reversibly interacts with the nucleotide-binding region of poliovirus protein 2C(ATPase), resulting in a specific inhibition of viral negative-sense RNA synthesis. The use of GuHCl thereby allows for the spatiotemporal separation of poliovirus gene expression and RNA replication and provides a powerful tool to synchronize the initiation of negative-sense RNA synthesis during in vitro replication reactions. In the present study, we examined the effect of GuHCl on mammalian orthoreovirus (MRV), a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus from the family Reoviridae. MRV growth in murine L929 cells was reversibly inhibited by 15 mM GuHCl. Furthermore, 15 mM GuHCl provided specific inhibition of viral dsRNA synthesis while sparing both positive-sense RNA synthesis and viral mRNA translation. By using GuHCl to provide temporal separation of MRV gene expression and genome replication, we obtained evidence that MRV primary transcripts support sufficient protein synthesis to assemble morphologically normal viral factories containing functional replicase complexes. In addition, the coordinated use of GuHCl and cycloheximide allowed us to demonstrate that MRV dsRNA synthesis can occur in the absence of ongoing protein synthesis, although to only a limited extent. Future studies utilizing the reversible inhibition of MRV dsRNA synthesis will focus on elucidating the target of GuHCl, as well as the components of the MRV replicase complexes.
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- Kenneth E Murray
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Maginnis MS, Forrest JC, Kopecky-Bromberg SA, Dickeson SK, Santoro SA, Zutter MM, Nemerow GR, Bergelson JM, Dermody TS. Beta1 integrin mediates internalization of mammalian reovirus. J Virol 2006; 80:2760-70. [PMID: 16501085 PMCID: PMC1395463 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.80.6.2760-2770.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Reovirus infection is initiated by interactions between the attachment protein sigma1 and cell surface carbohydrate and junctional adhesion molecule A (JAM-A). Expression of a JAM-A mutant lacking a cytoplasmic tail in nonpermissive cells conferred full susceptibility to reovirus infection, suggesting that cell surface molecules other than JAM-A mediate viral internalization following attachment. The presence of integrin-binding sequences in reovirus outer capsid protein lambda2, which serves as the structural base for sigma1, suggests that integrins mediate reovirus endocytosis. A beta1 integrin-specific antibody, but not antibodies specific for other integrin subunits, inhibited reovirus infection of HeLa cells. Expression of a beta1 integrin cDNA, along with a cDNA encoding JAM-A, in nonpermissive chicken embryo fibroblasts conferred susceptibility to reovirus infection. Infectivity of reovirus was significantly reduced in beta1-deficient mouse embryonic stem cells in comparison to isogenic cells expressing beta1. However, reovirus bound equivalently to cells that differed in levels of beta1 expression, suggesting that beta1 integrins are involved in a postattachment entry step. Concordantly, uptake of reovirus virions into beta1-deficient cells was substantially diminished in comparison to viral uptake into beta1-expressing cells. These data provide evidence that beta1 integrin facilitates reovirus internalization and suggest that viral entry occurs by interactions of reovirus virions with independent attachment and entry receptors on the cell surface.
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- Melissa S Maginnis
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lamb Center for Pediatric Research, D7235 MCN, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA
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Qiu T, Luongo CL. Identification of two histidines necessary for reovirus mRNA guanylyltransferase activity. Virology 2004; 316:313-24. [PMID: 14644613 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.08.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Grass carp reovirus, a segmented double-stranded RNA virus, is a member of the genus aquareovirus in the Reoviridae family. Grass carp reovirus VP1 was shown to be an mRNA guanylyltransferase. The enzyme demonstrated maximum activity <or= pH 6.0. This low pH maximum is conserved among the known guanylyltransferases of the Reoviridae family, but is not a property of the KxDG guanylyltransferases. The positive effect of low pH was detected for both autoguanylylation and GMP transfer, the two steps in the guanylyltransferase reaction. The effect of pH on enzymatic activity suggested that histidine protonation is responsible for the observed increase in guanylyltransferase activity. Mutagenesis of the two histidines conserved among the orthoreovirus and aquareovirus guanylyltransferases demonstrated that they are necessary for activity.
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- Tao Qiu
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-2170, USA
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Kim J, Zhang X, Centonze VE, Bowman VD, Noble S, Baker TS, Nibert ML. The hydrophilic amino-terminal arm of reovirus core shell protein lambda1 is dispensable for particle assembly. J Virol 2002; 76:12211-22. [PMID: 12414960 PMCID: PMC136864 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.23.12211-12222.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The reovirus core particle is a molecular machine that mediates synthesis, capping, and export of the viral plus strand RNA transcripts. Its assembly and structure-function relationships remain to be well understood. Following the lead of previous studies with other Reoviridae family members, most notably orbiviruses and rotaviruses, we used recombinant baculoviruses to coexpress reovirus core proteins lambda1, lambda2, and sigma2 in insect cells. The resulting core-like particles (CLPs) were purified and characterized. They were found to be similar to cores with regard to their sizes, morphologies, and protein compositions. Like cores, they could also be coated in vitro with the two major outer-capsid proteins, micro 1 and sigma3, to produce virion-like particles. Coexpression of core shell protein lambda1 and core nodule protein sigma2 was sufficient to yield CLPs that could withstand purification, whereas expression of lambda1 alone was not, indicating a required role for sigma2 as a previous study also suggested. In addition, CLPs that lacked lambda2 (formed from lambda1 and sigma2 only) could not be coated with micro 1 and sigma3, indicating a required role for lambda2 in the assembly of these outer-capsid proteins into particles. To extend the use of this system for understanding the core and its assembly, we addressed the hypothesis that the hydrophilic amino-terminal region of lambda1, which adopts an extended arm-like conformation around each threefold axis in the reovirus core crystal structure, plays an important role in assembling the core shell. Using a series of lambda1 deletion mutants, we showed that the amino-terminal 230 residues of lambda1, including its zinc finger, are dispensable for CLP assembly. Residues in the 231-to-259 region of lambda1, however, were required. The core crystal structure suggests that residues in the 231-to-259 region are necessary because they affect the interaction of lambda1 with the threefold and/or fivefold copies of sigma2. An effective system for studies of reovirus core structure, assembly, and functions is hereby established.
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- Jonghwa Kim
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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The amino-terminal 42-kDa region of the 144-kDa mammalian reovirus lambda 2 protein is a guanylyltransferase. It catalyzes the transfer of GMP from GTP to the 5' end of 5' -diphosphorylated mRNA via a phosphoamide with Lys-190. This amino acid is located at the base of a deep cleft. Based on sequence comparisons, the Kx[V/L/I]S motif is present in all known and proposed guanylyltransferases of the family Reoviridae. The requirement for this conserved sequence and other regions of the enzyme was analyzed by site-directed mutagenesis. Based on the enzymatic activity of the mutants, Lys-190 and Asp-191 are the only amino acids of the (190)KDLS sequence that are necessary for enzymatic activity. Since Asp-191 has its side chain oriented away from the cleft, most likely it plays an indirect role in forming a functional guanylyltransferase.
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- Cindy L Luongo
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA.
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Yin HS, Su YP, Lee LH. Evidence of nucleotidyl phosphatase activity associated with core protein sigma A of avian reovirus S1133. Virology 2002; 293:379-85. [PMID: 11886258 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Both avian reovirus core protein sigma A purified from virus-infected cell extracts and the purified bacterially expressed protein sigma A (e sigma A) were characterized for their nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) hydrolysis activity by thin-layer chromotography. Protein sigma A from both preparations has a nonspecific nucleotidyl phosphatase activity that hydrolyzes four types of NTP to their corresponding nucleoside di- and monophosphates and free phosphate. The divalent cation requirement for this activity of e sigma A was further examined by the addition of Mn(2+), Mg(2+), Ca(2+), and Zn(2+) ions. NTP hydrolysis by e sigma A was maximal when Mn(2+), Mg(2+), or Ca(2+) concentrations were 5, 4, or 1 mM, respectively. Addition of Mn(2+) or Mg(2+) stimulated the reactions up to 4- or 3-fold, respectively, higher than Ca(2+) (2.2-fold). However, Zn(2+) ion inhibited this activity of e sigma A. The results suggest that nucleotidyl phosphatase activity of e sigma A is absolutely dependent on the divalent cations Mn(2+), Mg(2+), or Ca(2+), but not Zn(2+). Similar results were obtained from the analysis of divalent cation requirements for the protein sigma A nucleotidyl phosphatase activity. Optimal pH for nucleotidyl phosphatase activity of protein sigma A from both preparations was determined using reaction mixtures buffered at different pH. The results show that the optimal activities of both proteins were similar and were achieved between pH 7.5 and 8.5.
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- Hsien Sheng Yin
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 403, Taiwan
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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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Farsetta DL, Chandran K, Nibert ML. Transcriptional activities of reovirus RNA polymerase in recoated cores. Initiation and elongation are regulated by separate mechanisms. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:39693-701. [PMID: 11007773 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m004562200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The particle-associated reovirus polymerase synthesizes mRNA within only certain viral particle types. Reovirus cores, subviral particles lacking outer capsid proteins mu1, sigma3, and sigma1, produce mRNA and abortive transcripts. Reovirus virions, which contain complete outer capsids, cannot produce mRNA and produce few abortive transcripts. Recoated cores are virion-like particles generated by the addition of recombinant outer capsid proteins to cores. We used recoated cores to analyze transcriptional regulation by reovirus outer capsid proteins. Partially recoated particles, containing less than virion amounts of mu1 and sigma3, synthesized mRNA at levels inversely proportional to outer capsid protein levels. Fully recoated cores exhibited undetectable mRNA synthesis levels, as did virions. However, recoated cores produced high levels of abortive transcripts. Recoated core abortive transcripts remained particle-associated and appeared to inhibit further abortive transcript production. Proteolysis of recoated cores removing mu1 and sigma3 released accumulated abortive transcripts and relieved inhibition of mRNA and abortive transcript synthesis. These results suggest transcriptional elongation, but not initiation, is blocked by virion-like amounts of mu1 and sigma3. Particle-associated abortive transcripts may down-regulate transcriptional initiation. Minor outer capsid protein sigma1 had no demonstrable effect on transcriptional activities. Transcriptional regulation may ensure progeny virions do not compete with transcribing particles for ribonucleoside triphosphates.
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- D L Farsetta
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, and Cell and Molecular Biology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Attoui H, Billoir F, Biagini P, de Micco P, de Lamballerie X. Complete sequence determination and genetic analysis of Banna virus and Kadipiro virus: proposal for assignment to a new genus (Seadornavirus) within the family Reoviridae. J Gen Virol 2000; 81:1507-15. [PMID: 10811934 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-6-1507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Arboviruses with genomes composed of 12 segments of double-stranded (ds) RNA have previously been classified as members or probable members of the genus Coltivirus within the family REOVIRIDAE: A number of these viruses have been isolated in North America and Europe and are serologically and genetically related to Colorado tick fever virus, the Coltivirus type species. These isolates constitute subgroup A of the coltiviruses. The complete genome sequences are now presented of two Asian arboviruses, Kadipiro virus (KDV) and Banna virus (BAV), which are currently classified as subgroup B coltiviruses. Analysis of the viral protein sequences shows that all of the BAV genome segments have cognate genes in KDV. The functions of several of these proteins were also indicated by this analysis. Proteins with dsRNA-binding domains or with significant similarities to polymerases, methyltransferases, NTPases or protein kinases were identified. Comparisons of amino acid sequences of the conserved polymerase protein have shown that BAV and KDV are only very distantly related to the subgroup A coltiviruses. These data demonstrate a requirement for the subgroup B viruses to be reassigned to a separate new genus, for which the name Seadornavirus is proposed.
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- H Attoui
- Laboratoire de Virologie Moléculaire, EFS Alpes-Méditérranée, 149 Boulevard Baille, 13005 Marseille cedex 5, France
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Luongo CL, Reinisch KM, Harrison SC, Nibert ML. Identification of the guanylyltransferase region and active site in reovirus mRNA capping protein lambda2. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:2804-10. [PMID: 10644745 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.4.2804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The 144-kDa lambda2 protein of mammalian reovirus catalyzes a number of enzymatic activities in the capping of reovirus mRNA, including the transfer of GMP from GTP to the 5' end of the 5'-diphosphorylated nascent transcript. This reaction proceeds through a covalently autoguanylylated lambda2-GMP intermediate. The smaller size of RNA capping guanylyltransferases from other organisms suggested that the lambda2-associated guanylyltransferase would be only a part of this protein. Limited proteinase K digestion of baculovirus-expressed lambda2 was used to generate an amino-terminal M(r) 42,000 fragment that appears to be both necessary and sufficient for guanylyltransferase activity. Although lysine 226 was identified by previous biochemical studies as the active-site residue that forms a phosphoamide bond with GMP in autoguanylylated lambda2, mutation of lysine 226 to alanine caused only a partial reduction in guanylyltransferase activity at the autoguanylylation step. Alanine substitution for other lysines within the amino-terminal region of lambda2 identified lysine 190 as necessary for autoguanylylation and lysine 171 as an important contributor to autoguanylylation. A novel active-site motif is proposed for the RNA guanylyltransferases of mammalian reoviruses and other Reoviridae members.
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- C L Luongo
- Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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This chapter focuses on the history of the discovery of cap and an update of research on viral and cellular-messenger RNA (mRNA) capping. Cap structures of the type m7 GpppN(m)pN(m)p are present at the 5′ ends of nearly all eukaryotic cellular and viral mRNAs. A cap is added to cellular mRNA precursors and to the transcripts of viruses that replicate in the nucleus during the initial phases of transcription and before other processing events, including internal N6A methylation, 3′-poly (A) addition, and exon splicing. Despite the variations on the methylation theme, the important biological consequences of a cap structure appear to correlate with the N7-methyl on the 5′-terminal G and the two pyrophosphoryl bonds that connect m7G in a 5′–5′ configuration to the first nucleotide of mRNA. In addition to elucidating the biochemical mechanisms of capping and the downstream effects of this 5′- modification on gene expression, the advent of gene cloning has made available an ever-increasing amount of information on the proteins responsible for producing caps and the functional effects of other cap-related interactions. Genetic approaches have demonstrated the lethal consequences of cap failure in yeasts, and complementation studies have shown the evolutionary functional conservation of capping from unicellular to metazoan organisms.
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- Y Furuichi
- AGENE Research Institute, Kamakura, Japan
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Genome transcription is a critical stage in the life cycle of a virus, as this is the process by which the viral genetic information is presented to the host cell protein synthesis machinery for the production of the viral proteins needed for genome replication and progeny virion assembly. Viruses with dsRNA genomes face a particular challenge in that host cells do not produce proteins which can transcribe from a dsRNA template. Therefore, dsRNA viruses contain all of the necessary enzymatic machinery to synthesize complete mRNA transcripts within the core without the need for disassembly. Indeed one of the more striking observations about genome transcription in dsRNA viruses is that this process occurs efficiently only when the transcriptionally competent particle is fully intact. This observation suggests that all of the components of the TCP, including the viral genome, the transcription enzymes, and the viral capsid, function together to produce and release mRNA transcripts and that each component has a specific and critical role to play in promoting the efficiency of this process. This review has examined the process of genome transcription in dsRNA viruses from the perspective of rotavirus as a model system. However, despite numerous architectural and organizational differences among the families of dsRNA viruses, numerous studies suggest that the basic mechanism of mRNA production may be similar in most, if not all, viruses having dsRNA genomes. Important functional similarities include (1) the presence of a capsid-bound RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, which produces single-stranded mRNA transcripts from the dsRNA genome and regenerates the dsRNA genome from single-stranded RNA templates; (2) in viruses infecting eukaryotic hosts, the presence of all the enzymatic activities needed to generate the 5' cap required by the eukaryotic translation machinery; (3) the high degree of structural order present in the packaged genome, suggesting the requirement for organization in the viral core; (4) the role of the innermost capsid protein as a scaffold on which the core components of the transcription apparatus are assembled; and (5) the release of nascent mRNA transcripts through channels at the icosahedral vertices. The process of genome transcription in dsRNA viruses will become better understood as structural studies progress to higher resolution and as more viruses become amenable to study using site-directed mutagenesis coupled with viral reconstitution to generate recombinant particles having precise functional and structural changes. Future studies will dissect important intermolecular interactions required for efficient mRNA synthesis and will shed further light on the reasons for which the viral core must be structurally intact in order for transcription to occur efficiently. Structural studies of the capping enzymes at atomic resolution will reveal how multiple enzyme activities reside within a single polypeptide and how they act in concert to synthesize the 5' cap on the end of each mature transcript. Perhaps most interestingly, high resolution structural studies of actively transcribing virions will provide insight into the conformational changes that occur within the core during mRNA synthesis. Together, these studies will clarify the function of this complex macromolecular machine and will also shed additional light on the basic principles of virus architecture and assembly, as well as provide avenues for the design of antiviral therapies.
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- J A Lawton
- Verna and Maars McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, 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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Carr-Schmid A, Durko N, Cavallius J, Merrick WC, Kinzy TG. Mutations in a GTP-binding motif of eukaryotic elongation factor 1A reduce both translational fidelity and the requirement for nucleotide exchange. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:30297-302. [PMID: 10514524 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.42.30297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A series of mutations in the highly conserved N(153)KMD(156)GTP-binding motif of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae translation elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) affect the GTP-dependent functions of the protein and increase misincorporation of amino acids in vitro. Two critical regulatory processes of translation elongation, guanine nucleotide exchange and translational fidelity, were analyzed in strains with the N153T, D156N, and N153T/D156E mutations. These strains are omnipotent suppressors of nonsense mutations, indicating reduced A site fidelity, which correlates with changes either in total translation rates in vivo or in GTPase activity in vitro. All three mutant proteins also show an increase in the K(m) for GTP. An in vivo system lacking the guanine nucleotide exchange factor eukaryotic elongation factor 1Balpha (eEF1Balpha) and supported for growth by excess eEF1A was used to show the two mutations with the highest K(m) for GTP restore most but not all growth defects found in these eEF1Balpha deficient-strains to near wild type. An increase in K(m) alone, however, is not sufficient for suppression and may indicate eEF1Balpha performs additional functions. Additionally, eEF1A mutations that suppress the requirement for guanine nucleotide exchange may not effectively perform all the functions of eEF1A in vivo.
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- A Carr-Schmid
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Ohio 44106, USA
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Hazelton PR, Coombs KM. The reovirus mutant tsA279 L2 gene is associated with generation of a spikeless core particle: implications for capsid assembly. J Virol 1999; 73:2298-308. [PMID: 9971813 PMCID: PMC104475 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.3.2298-2308.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/1998] [Accepted: 11/23/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Previous studies which used intertypic reassortants of the wild-type reovirus serotype 1 Lang and the temperature-sensitive (ts) serotype 3 mutant clone tsA279 identified two ts lesions; one lesion, in the M2 gene segment, was associated with defective transmembrane transport of restrictively assembled virions (P. R. Hazelton and K. M. Coombs, Virology 207:46-58, 1995). In the present study we show that the second lesion, in the L2 gene segment, which encodes the lambda2 protein, is associated with the accumulation of a core-like particle defective for the lambda2 pentameric spike. Physicochemical, biochemical, and immunological studies showed that these structures were deficient for genomic double-stranded RNA, the core spike protein lambda2, and the minor core protein micro2. Core particles with the lambda2 spike structure accumulated after temperature shift-down from a restrictive to a permissive temperature in the presence of cycloheximide. These data suggest the spike-deficient, core-like particle is an assembly intermediate in reovirus morphogenesis. The existence of this naturally occurring primary core structure suggests that the core proteins lambda1, lambda3, and sigma2 interact to initiate the process of virion capsid assembly through a dodecahedral mechanism. The next step in the proposed capsid assembly model would be the association of the minor core protein mu2, either preceding or collateral to the condensation of the lambda2 pentameric spike at the apices of the primary core structure. The assembly pathway of the reovirus double capsid is further elaborated when these observations are combined with structures identified in other studies.
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- P R Hazelton
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 0W3
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Cavallius J, Merrick WC. Site-directed mutagenesis of yeast eEF1A. Viable mutants with altered nucleotide specificity. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28752-8. [PMID: 9786872 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.44.28752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Site-directed mutants of eEF1A (formerly eEF-1alpha) were generated using a modification of a highly versatile yeast shuttle vector (Cavallius, J., Popkie, A. P., and Merrick, W. C. (1997) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1350, 345-358). The nucleotide specificity sequence NKMD (residues number 153-156) was targeted for mutagenesis, and the following mutants were obtained: N153D (DKMD), N153T (TKMD), D156N (NKMN), D156W (NKMW), and the double mutant N153T,D156E (TKNE). All of the yeast strains containing the mutant eEF1As as the sole source of eEF1A were viable except for the N153D mutant. Most of the purified mutant eEF1As had specific activities in the poly(U)-directed synthesis of polyphenylalanine similar to wild type, although with a Km for GTP increased by 1-2 orders of magnitude. The mutants showed a reduced rate of GTP hydrolysis, and most displayed misincorporation rates greater than wild type. The mutant NKMW eEF1A showed unusual properties. The yeast strain was temperature sensitive for growth, although the purified protein was not. Second, this form of eEF1A was 10-fold more accurate in protein synthesis, and its rate of GTP hydrolysis was about 20% of wild type. In total, the wild-type protein contains the most optimal nucleotide specificity sequence, NKMD, and even subtle changes in this sequence have drastic consequences on eEF1A function in vitro or yeast viability.
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- J Cavallius
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4935, USA
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Luongo CL, Contreras CM, Farsetta DL, Nibert ML. Binding site for S-adenosyl-L-methionine in a central region of mammalian reovirus lambda2 protein. Evidence for activities in mRNA cap methylation. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:23773-80. [PMID: 9726986 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.37.23773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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One or more proteins in mammalian reovirus core particles mediate two RNA methylation activities, (guanosine-7-N)-methyltransferase and (guanosine-2'-O)-methyltransferase, that contribute to forming the 5' cap 1 structure on viral mRNA. We used UV irradiation to identify core proteins that bind S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM), the methyl-group donor for both methyltransferases. A [methyl-3H]SAM-binding site was observed among the reovirus lambda proteins; was shown to be specific by competition with low levels of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine, the product of methyl-group transfer from SAM; and was subsequently localized to protein lambda2. lambda2 mediates the guanylyltransferase reaction in cap formation and was previously proposed to mediate one or both methylation reactions as well. SAM binding was demonstrated for both lambda2 in cores and lambda2 expressed in insect cells from a recombinant baculovirus. Using three different methods to cleave lambda2, a binding site for SAM was tentatively localized to a central region of lambda2, between residues 792 and 1100, which includes a smaller region with sequence similarity to the SAM-binding pocket of other methyltransferases. Alanine substitutions at positions 827 and 829 within this predicted binding region greatly reduced the capacity of baculovirus-expressed lambda2 protein to undergo UV cross-linking to SAM but had no effects on either the guanylyltransferase activity of this protein or its conformation as judged by partial proteolysis, suggesting that one or both of these residues is essential for SAM binding. Based on these findings, we propose that the two methyltransferase activities involved in mRNA capping by reovirus cores utilize a single SAM-binding pocket within a central region of lambda2.
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- C L Luongo
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Yue Z, Shatkin AJ. Enzymatic and control functions of reovirus structural proteins. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1998; 233:31-56. [PMID: 9599920 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-72092-5_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Z Yue
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ 08854-5638, USA
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- M L Nibert
- Institute for Molecular Virology, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706, USA
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Dryden KA, Farsetta DL, Wang G, Keegan JM, Fields BN, Baker TS, Nibert ML. Internal/structures containing transcriptase-related proteins in top component particles of mammalian orthoreovirus. Virology 1998; 245:33-46. [PMID: 9614865 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The structure of mammalian orthoreovirus top component particles, which are profoundly deficient in the content of double-stranded RNA genome, was determined at 30 A resolution by transmission cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction. Previously undetected, ordered densities, appearing primarily as pentameric flowers in the reconstruction, were seen to extend 65 A inwardly from the inner capsid at the icosahedral fivefold axes. Identically positioned but lower density elements were observed in two types of partially uncoated top component particles obtained by limited proteolysis. The levels of three inner-capsid proteins-lamda 1, lamda 3, and mu 2-were reduced in concert with the internal densities during proteolytic uncoating. Since lamda 3 contains the catalytic regions of the viral RNA polymerase and since both lamda 1 and mu 2 appear to play roles in transcription or mRNA capping, the internal structures are concluded to be complexes of the viral transcriptase-related enzymes. The findings have implications for the mechanisms of transcription and mRNA capping by orthoreovirus particles.
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- K A Dryden
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Bisaillon M, Lemay G. Characterization of the reovirus lambda1 protein RNA 5'-triphosphatase activity. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:29954-7. [PMID: 9368073 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.47.29954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Characterization of the phosphohydrolytic activities of recombinant reovirus lambda1 protein demonstrates that, in addition to the previously reported nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase and helicase activities, the protein also possesses RNA 5'-triphosphatase activity. This activity was absolutely dependent on the presence of a divalent cation, Mg2+ or Mn2+, and specifically removes the 5'-gamma-phosphate at the end of triphosphate-terminated RNAs. Kinetic competition analysis showed that nucleoside triphosphate phosphohydrolase and RNA 5'-triphosphatase reactions are carried out at a common active site. These results strongly support the idea that, in addition to its role as an RNA helicase during transcription of the viral genome, lambda1 also participates during formation of the cap structure at the 5' end of newly synthesized reovirus mRNAs. The lambda1 protein represents only the third RNA triphosphatase whose primary structure is known and the first described in a double-stranded RNA virus.
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- M Bisaillon
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada
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Luongo CL, Dryden KA, Farsetta DL, Margraf RL, Severson TF, Olson NH, Fields BN, Baker TS, Nibert ML. Localization of a C-terminal region of lambda2 protein in reovirus cores. J Virol 1997; 71:8035-40. [PMID: 9311901 PMCID: PMC192168 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.71.10.8035-8040.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The 144-kDa lambda2 protein is a structural component of mammalian reovirus particles and contains the guanylyltransferase activity involved in adding 5' caps to reovirus mRNAs. After incubation of reovirus T3D core particles at 52 degrees C, the lambda2 protein became sensitive to partial protease degradation. Sequential treatments with heat and chymotrypsin caused degradation of a C-terminal portion of lambda2, leaving a 120K core-associated fragment. The four other proteins in cores--lambda1, lambda3, mu2, and sigma2--were not affected by the treatment. Purified cores with cleaved lambda2 were subjected to transmission cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction. Reconstruction analysis demonstrated that a distinctive outer region of lambda2 was missing from the modified cores. The degraded region of lambda2 corresponded to the one that contacts the base of the sigma1 protein fiber in reovirus virions and infectious subvirion particles, suggesting that the sigma1-binding region of lambda2 is near its C terminus. Cores with cleaved lambda2 were shown to retain all activities required to transcribe and cap reovirus mRNAs, indicating that the C-terminal region of lambda2 is dispensable for those functions.
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- C L Luongo
- Institute for Molecular Virology, The Graduate School, and Department of Biochemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, USA
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- M Bisaillon
- Département de Microbiologie et Immunologie, Université de Montréal, Station Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada
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Liao HJ, Stollar V. Methyltransferase activity of the insect orbivirus JKT-7400: photoaffinity labeling of a minor virion protein, VP4, with S-adenosylmethionine. Virology 1997; 235:235-40. [PMID: 9281503 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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JKT-7400 virus is an orbivirus originally isolated from Culex mosquitoes. In earlier work we had described the viral structural proteins and presented evidence suggesting that a minor protein, VP6, located in the viral core was the viral guanylyltransferase. We now show that gradient-purified JKT-7400 virions possess a methyltransferase (MTase) activity which can use GTP or GDP as the methyl acceptor. The apparent Km of the MTase for S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) was 25 microM. Photoaffinity labeling experiments in which 3H-[methyl]-AdoMet was incubated with virions or viral cores demonstrated labeling of VP4, a minor protein present in the viral core, suggesting that this protein is the viral MTase. Labeling of VP4 was inhibited by addition of unlabeled AdoMet or S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy).
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- H J Liao
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, New Jersey, 08854-5635, USA
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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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Samarbaf-Zadeh AR, Lambden PR, Green SM, Deng Y, Caul EO, Clarke IN. The VP3 gene of human group C rotavirus. Virus Genes 1996; 13:169-73. [PMID: 8972570 DOI: 10.1007/bf00568909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The complete nucleotide sequence of genome segment 4 from the human group C rotavirus (Bristol strain) was determined. Comparison of the nucleotide sequences of the genome termini with the consensus 5' and 3' terminal non-coding sequences of the human group C rotavirus genome revealed characteristic 5' and 3' sequence motifs. Human group C rotavirus genome segment 4 is 2,166bp long and encodes a single open reading frame of 2,082 nucleotides (693 amino acids) starting at nucleotide 55 and terminating at nucleotide 2,136 giving a 3' untranslated region of 30 nucleotides. Alignment with the porcine group C VP3 equivalent gene showed the human gene is one amino acid longer, and that the proteins have 84.1% amino acid sequence identity. A conserved potential nucleotide binding motif shared with the porcine VP3 sequence was identified. Analogy with the group A rotaviruses suggested that the genome segment 4 encodes the group C rotavirus guanylyltransferase.
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Covalent catalysis in nucleotidyl transfer. A KTDG motif essential for enzyme-GMP complex formation by mRNA capping enzyme is conserved at the active sites of RNA and DNA ligases. J Biol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)53170-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Liu M, Mattion NM, Estes MK. Rotavirus VP3 expressed in insect cells possesses guanylyltransferase activity. Virology 1992; 188:77-84. [PMID: 1314468 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90736-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We have examined the possible function(s) of the protein VP3 encoded by the rotavirus SA11 genomic segment 3. Viral-associated VP3 in double-shelled and single-shelled particles was shown to bind GTP covalently and reversibly. These properties are similar to the unique characteristics of eukaryotic and viral guanylyltransferases, suggesting that VP3 is associated with a capping enzyme activity. Previous studies have shown that intact viral particles are required for transcription, making it difficult to unequivocally identify the functions of individual proteins within such particles. Characterization of VP3 produced in the baculovirus expression system showed that the expressed VP3 covalently bound GTP. These studies suggest that VP3 alone is the guanylyltransferase. GTP binding also was seen in core virus-like particles and single-shelled virus-like particles that lacked viral nucleic acid and were assembled in insect cells.
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- M Liu
- Division of Molecular Virology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030
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Dzianott AM, Bujarski JJ. The nucleotide sequence and genome organization of the RNA-1 segment in two bromoviruses: broad bean mottle virus and cowpea chlorotic mottle virus. Virology 1991; 185:553-62. [PMID: 1962437 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90525-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The complete nucleotide sequences of the RNA-1 segments in broad bean mottle virus (BBMV) and cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV) were determined. BBMV RNA-1 consists of 3158 nucleotides and CCMV RNA-1 has 3171 nucleotides. Both BBMV and CCMV RNA-1 are capped at the 5' end but, unlike in other tricornaviruses, BBMV RNA-1 initiates with an A residue. Both BBMV and CCMV RNA-1 are monocistronic encoding for highly homologous 1a proteins of 966 and 958 amino acids, respectively. The highest homologies are clustered within two domains: the N-domain that aligns with the nsP1 Sindbis virus protein, a putative methyl transferase, and the C-domain which has a conserved nucleotide binding motif. Previous sequence comparisons suggest that the C-terminal domain may function as an NTP-dependent RNA helicase. In addition, we find that the C-domain has patterns similar to those of the reovirus and vaccinia virus guanylyl transferases. All this implies that 1a protein is a multifunctional polypeptide involved in both RNA capping and RNA polymerization processes.
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- A M Dzianott
- Northern Illinois University, Department of Biological Sciences, DeKalb 60115
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Mao ZX, Joklik WK. Isolation and enzymatic characterization of protein lambda 2, the reovirus guanylyltransferase. Virology 1991; 185:377-86. [PMID: 1656591 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90785-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Protein lambda 2 of reovirus serotype 3 has been purified to homogeneity from extracts of cells infected with hybrid vaccinia virus strain WR into whose TK gene of the reovirus L2 genome segment under the control of the CPV ATI protein gene promoter had been inserted. Protein lambda 2 is formed in large amounts (final purification factor about 180) as a monomer that shows no tendency to pentamerize into the reovirus core projections/spikes. Isolated protein lambda 2 is reversibly guanylylated by GTP (that is, it carries out the GTP-PPi exchange reaction) and can transfer the -GMP moiety to GTP to form GppppG, to GDP to form GpppG, and to 5'-pp-terminated RNA to form GpppG- caps. These studies confirm previous studies on reovirus cores that indicated that protein lambda 2 is the reovirus guanylyltransferase. Protein lambda 2 possesses neither nucleoside nor RNA triphosphatase activities, nor methyltransferase activities; thus it is the reovirus capping enzyme, but provides neither the required 5'-ppG-terminated substrate nor does it methylate the cap structure. These must be functions of lambda 2 pentamers or of other individual or complexed components of reovirus cores.
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- Z X Mao
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Dermody TS, Schiff LA, Nibert ML, Coombs KM, Fields BN. The S2 gene nucleotide sequences of prototype strains of the three reovirus serotypes: characterization of reovirus core protein sigma 2. J Virol 1991; 65:5721-31. [PMID: 1920614 PMCID: PMC250232 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.65.11.5721-5731.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The S2 gene nucleotide sequences of prototype strains of the three reovirus serotypes were determined to gain insight into the structure and function of the S2 translation product, virion core protein sigma 2. The S2 sequences of the type 1 Lang, type 2 Jones, and type 3 Dearing strains are 1,331 nucleotides in length and contain a single large open reading frame that could encode a protein of 418 amino acids, corresponding to sigma 2. The deduced sigma 2 amino acid sequences of these strains are very conserved, being identical at 94% of the sequence positions. Predictions of sigma 2 secondary structure and hydrophobicity suggest that the protein has a two-domain structure. A larger domain is suggested to be formed from the amino-terminal three-fourths of sigma 2 sequence, which is separated from a smaller carboxy-terminal domain by a turn-rich hinge region. The carboxy-terminal domain includes sequences that are more hydrophilic than those in the rest of the protein and contains sequences which are predicted to form an alpha-helix. A region of striking similarity was found between amino acids 354 and 374 of sigma 2 and amino acids 1008 and 1031 of the beta subunit of the Escherichia coli DNA-dependent RNA polymerase. We suggest that the regions with similar sequence in sigma 2 and the beta subunit form amphipathic alpha-helices which may play a related role in the function of each protein. We have also performed experiments to further characterize the double-stranded RNA-binding activity of sigma 2 and found that the capacity to bind double-stranded RNA is a property of the sigma 2 protein of prototype strains and of the S2 mutant tsC447.
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- T S Dermody
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Scheidel LM, Stollar V. Mutations that confer resistance to mycophenolic acid and ribavirin on Sindbis virus map to the nonstructural protein nsP1. Virology 1991; 181:490-9. [PMID: 1826574 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90881-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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SVMPA, a mutant of Sindbis virus derived by serial passage on Aedes albopictus mosquito cells maintained after infection in the presence of mycophenolic acid (MPA), is resistant not only to MPA but also to ribavirin. Both of these compounds inhibit the synthesis of GMP and thereby reduce the level of GTP. We had suggested earlier that SVMPA had become resistant to MPA because it coded for an altered RNA guanylyltransferase enzyme with an increased affinity for GTP, enabling it to replicate in cells with reduced levels of GTP. We now report that the MPA-resistant phenotype of SVMPA has been mapped to the coding region for the nonstructural viral protein, nsP1. By replacing the nucleotide sequence between 88 and 1404 of the infectious clone of Sindbis virus (i.e., the Toto 1101 plasmid) with the corresponding sequence from SVMPA cDNA, we were able to generate recombinant Sindbis virus expressing the drug-resistant phenoptype. SVMPA has three base substitutions in the region between nucleotides 88 and 1404 which lead to predicted amino acid changes in the Sindbis virus nsP1 protein: the replacement of Gln at residue 21 by Lys, Ser at residue 23 by Asn, and Val at residue 302 by Met. These results, taken together with previous data from our laboratory associating the RNA methyltransferase with nsP1, (1) are consistent with the idea that an alteration of the RNA guanylyltransferase is responsible for the MPA-resistant phenotype and (2) support the idea that an important function of nsP1 relates to the modification of the 5' terminus of the Sindbis virus mRNAs.
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- L M Scheidel
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854
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Coombs KM, Fields BN, Harrison SC. Crystallization of the reovirus type 3 Dearing core. Crystal packing is determined by the lambda 2 protein. J Mol Biol 1990; 215:1-5. [PMID: 2398494 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(05)80089-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Core particles of reovirus type 3 Dearing (T3D) crystallized in the face-centered cubic space group F432 with dimensions of 1270 A along each edge of the unit cell. Core particles of reovirus type 1 Lang (T1L) did not crystallize. Experiments with core particles derived from 27 different T1L x T3D reassortant viruses indicated that the L2 genome segment determined the capacity of cores to crystallize. This finding indicates important differences in the surface topography of the L2-translation product, the lambda 2 protein, of these two isolates, and suggests that important crystal contacts are mediated by this protein. These data are used to generate a model of the packing of reovirus core particles within the unit cell.
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- K M Coombs
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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Domain structure of vaccinia virus mRNA capping enzyme. Activity of the Mr 95,000 subunit expressed in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)38495-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Mitchell DB, Both GW. Completion of the genomic sequence of the simian rotavirus SA11: nucleotide sequences of segments 1, 2, and 3. Virology 1990; 177:324-31. [PMID: 2162107 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90487-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The nucleotide sequences for gene segments 1, 2, and 3 of the simian rotavirus SA11 genome, coding for the structural polypeptides VP1, VP2, and VP3, respectively, have been determined. Comparison of the VP1 and VP2 amino acid sequences with those determined for other strains indicates that certain features of these proteins are conserved. The possible functions of the viral polypeptides VP1, VP2, and VP3 are discussed in the light of enzyme functions known to be present in the rotavirus particle. The complete sequence of the entire SA11 genome, which consists of 11 segments of dsRNA totaling 18,555 nucleotides, has now been determined. This is the first complete sequence available for a rotavirus genome. Each genome segment appears to code for only one primary product; there are no significant, alternative open reading frames which are conserved between strains. Relevant data for each genome segment are tabulated.
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- D B Mitchell
- CSIRO Division of Biotechnology, Laboratory for Molecular Biology, New South Wales, Australia
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Moody MD, Joklik WK. The function of reovirus proteins during the reovirus multiplication cycle: analysis using monoreassortants. Virology 1989; 173:437-46. [PMID: 2596024 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90556-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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When cultured cells are injected with mixtures of cores of two reovirus strains, a high proportion of reassortants are monoreassortants, that is, virus particles that contain one genome segment of 1 parent and 9 genome segments of the other. We have isolated two complete sets of monoreassortants, those that contain a single serotype 2 genome segment and 9 serotype 3 genome segments, and those that contain 1 serotype 3 genome segment and 9 serotype 1 genome segments. We have used the former set of monoreassortants (because reovirus serotypes 2 and 3 are less closely related than serotypes 1 and 3) to assess the effect of all 10 genome segments, or rather of the proteins that they encode, in controlling parameters of the reovirus multiplication cycle such as yield size, extent of viral ssRNA, dsRNA and protein synthesis, plaque size, and cytopathogenicity. Among the major findings are: proteins lambda 2, mu 1/mu 1C, and sigma 3 control yield size and extent of RNA and protein synthesis; proteins mu 2 and sigma 1 control severity of cytopathic effects; and proteins sigma 1, mu 1/mu 1C, and mu 2 control plaque size. Identification of monoreassortant phenotypes is useful for identifying which viral proteins are functionally involved at the various stages of the reovirus multiplication cycle.
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- M D Moody
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Fukuhara N, Nishikawa K, Gorziglia M, Kapikian AZ. Nucleotide sequence of gene segment 1 of a porcine rotavirus strain. Virology 1989; 173:743-9. [PMID: 2556853 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90590-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of gene segment 1, which encodes VP1 of porcine rotavirus strain Gottfried, was determined. VP1 is associated with single-shelled rotavirus particles and has been linked to virus transcriptase and replicase enzymatic activities. Gene segment 1 is 3302 nucleotides long with a single open reading frame capable of coding for a protein of 1088 amino acids (calculated mol wt 125 kDa). The predicted amino acid sequence revealed that VP1 is basic, with a net positive charge of 18 at pH 7.0. It shares five consensus sequences with several well-characterized RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Gottfried VP1 also shares consensus sequences with certain GTP-binding proteins; however, we could not detect any GTP-binding activity in VP1. Our preliminary experiments suggest that VP3, another polypeptide located in single-shelled rotavirus particles, possesses GTP-binding activity. These results suggest that mRNA synthesis and capping enzyme activities are related to VP1 and VP3, respectively.
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- N Fukuhara
- Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Wiener JR, Bartlett JA, Joklik WK. The sequences of reovirus serotype 3 genome segments M1 and M3 encoding the minor protein mu 2 and the major nonstructural protein mu NS, respectively. Virology 1989; 169:293-304. [PMID: 2523177 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90154-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The sequences of the M1 and M3 genome segments of reovirus serotype 3 strain Dearing, which encode protein mu 2, a minor capsid, component, and protein mu NS, one of the two nonstructural proteins, are reported. They are 2304 and 2235 base pairs long, respectively, and proteins mu 2 and mu NS comprise 736 and 719 amino acids, respectively. This completes the sequencing of the reovirus serotype 3 genome: it comprises 23,549 basepairs. Neither protein mu 2 nor protein mu NS possesses any sequence similarity to any protein sequence in gene banks, nor any of the commonly recognized motifs indicative of specialized function. Protein mu 2 has a higher alpha-helix content (36%) than other capsid proteins; for it, the ratio of amino acids in alpha-helix/beta-sheet configuration is 1.2, whereas that of typical reovirus capsid proteins ranges from 0.5 to 0.9. Thus it is not a typical capsid protein. Protein mu NS has a very high alpha-helix content (about 50%; alpha-helix/beta-sheet ratio 2.5), which is very similar to that of the other nonstructural reovirus protein, protein sigma NS. The C-terminal regions of mu NS and various myosins exhibit periodic sequence similarity elements indicative of helical structure. Protein mu NS exists in two forms in infected cells: protein mu NS and a protein, mu NSC, which lacks a region of about 5 kDa at its N-terminus. Pulse-chase analysis in vivo suggests that protein mu NSC is not a cleavage product of protein mu NS; further, protein mu NSC is formed along with protein mu NS in in vitro protein synthesizing systems, whereas protein mu 1C, the cleavage product of protein mu 1, is not. It is likely, therefore, that protein mu NSC is a primary translation product, formed either by ribosomes reading through the first initiation codon of m1 messenger RNA at position 14 and initiating at codon 42, or by de novo internal initiation at this codon.
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- J R Wiener
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Roner MR, Gaillard RK, Joklik WK. Control of reovirus messenger RNA translation efficiency by the regions upstream of initiation codons. Virology 1989; 168:292-301. [PMID: 2916327 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90269-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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The 10 species of reovirus messenger RNA are translated in vivo with efficiencies/frequencies that differ by as much as 100-fold. The s1 mRNA, which is translated 10 times less efficiently than the s4 mRNA but 10 times more efficiently than the/1 and m1 mRNAs, has a unique BamH1 cleavage site located immediately downstream of its initiation codon. Because the reovirus mRNAs have been cloned, this provides the opportunity for placing modified and altered sequences upstream of its coding sequence. The translation efficiencies of the variant mRNAs, transcribed via the SP6 in vitro transcription system, can then be measured in the rabbit reticulocyte lysate in vitro translation system. Using this system it was found that replacing the 5'-upstream sequence of the s1 mRNA with that of the s4 mRNA increases its in vitro translation efficiency by 4-fold; that the trinucleotide immediately upstream of the s1 initiation codon renders it very weak, and that it is only slightly superior to the weakest Kozak consensus sequence; that the nature of the nucleotides further upstream than position -3 can profoundly affect translation efficiency; that the nature of this effect is in turn markedly modified by the nature of nucleotides in positions -1 to -3; and that there is a minimum optimal 5'-upstream sequence length of about 14 nucleotides. We also investigated the effect of secondary structure involvement on the ability of 5'-upstream sequences to promote translation. Two effects were noted. First, being part of moderately stable stem loops (delta G, -18 kcal/mol) decreased translation efficiency about 3-fold; second, mRNA in which only three 5'-terminal nucleotides were unpaired were translated five times less efficiently than mRNA in which six nucleotides were unpaired. Accessibility of the 5'-cap as well as secondary structure of the 5'-upstream sequences are therefore factors that affect translation efficiency. Finally, we showed that the m1 mRNA, which is transcribed very poorly in vivo, is translated very efficiently in vitro; and that its 5'-upstream sequence is as effective in increasing protein sigma 1 formation as that of s4 mRNA. Since both m1 mRNA and protein mu 2 are stable in infected cells, the reason why m1 mRNA is translated so inefficiently in vivo therefore remains unexplained.
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- M R Roner
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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Bartlett JA, Joklik WK. The sequence of the reovirus serotype 3 L3 genome segment which encodes the major core protein lambda 1. Virology 1988; 167:31-7. [PMID: 3267236 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(88)90051-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We present the sequence of reovirus serotype 3 (strain Dearing) genome segment L3 which encodes protein lambda 1, one of the two major components of the core shell. The genome segment is 3896 nucleotides long, with 5'- and 3'-noncoding regions of 13 and 181 nucleotides, respectively. Protein lambda 1 is 1233 amino acids long. It is a slightly acidic protein, with a predicted alpha-helix and beta-sheet content of 23.6 and 28.3%, respectively. Its rather low predicted alpha-helix contact is consistent with its being a structural protein. The 123 amino acid long region at its amino terminus is very hydrophilic and contains three alpha-helical regions, one being 26 amino acids long. Protein lambda 1 contains two functional motifs. The first is a nucleotide binding site -TKGKSSG- starting at residue 8, the other is a "zinc finger" motif centered around amino acid residue 194. This suggests that protein lambda 1 functions during the transcription of either dsRNA into plus strands or of plus strands into minus strands, or during both. It displays no significant sequence similarity to any protein sequence in the GenBank data base.
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- J A Bartlett
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710
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