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Schmidt L, Tüting C, Kyrilis FL, Hamdi F, Semchonok DA, Hause G, Meister A, Ihling C, Stubbs MT, Sinz A, Kastritis PL. Delineating organizational principles of the endogenous L-A virus by cryo-EM and computational analysis of native cell extracts. Commun Biol 2024; 7:557. [PMID: 38730276 PMCID: PMC11087493 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06204-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
Abstract
The high abundance of most viruses in infected host cells benefits their structural characterization. However, endogenous viruses are present in low copy numbers and are therefore challenging to investigate. Here, we retrieve cell extracts enriched with an endogenous virus, the yeast L-A virus. The determined cryo-EM structure discloses capsid-stabilizing cation-π stacking, widespread across viruses and within the Totiviridae, and an interplay of non-covalent interactions from ten distinct capsomere interfaces. The capsid-embedded mRNA decapping active site trench is supported by a constricting movement of two flexible opposite-facing loops. tRNA-loaded polysomes and other biomacromolecules, presumably mRNA, are found in virus proximity within the cell extract. Mature viruses participate in larger viral communities resembling their rare in-cell equivalents in terms of size, composition, and inter-virus distances. Our results collectively describe a 3D-architecture of a viral milieu, opening the door to cell-extract-based high-resolution structural virology.
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- Lisa Schmidt
- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Technical Biogeochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Permoserstraße 15, Leipzig, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany.
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany.
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Biozentrum, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 22, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacy, Center for Structural Mass Spectrometry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Str. 3, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Research Center HALOmem, Charles Tanford Protein Center, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3a, Halle/Saale, Germany.
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 3, Halle/Saale, Germany.
- Institute of Chemical Biology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece.
- Biozentrum, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Weinbergweg 22, Halle/Saale, Germany.
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Ramírez M, Velázquez R, López-Piñeiro A, Martínez A. Genome Features of a New Double-Stranded RNA Helper Virus (LBCbarr) from Wine Torulaspora delbrueckii Killer Strains. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:13492. [PMID: 34948288 PMCID: PMC8709356 DOI: 10.3390/ijms222413492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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The killer phenotype of Torulaspora delbrueckii (Td) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) is encoded in the genome of medium-size dsRNA viruses (V-M). Killer strains also contain a helper large size (4.6 kb) dsRNA virus (V-LA) which is required for maintenance and replication of V-M. Another large-size (4.6 kb) dsRNA virus (V-LBC), without known helper activity to date, may join V-LA and V-M in the same yeast. T. delbrueckii Kbarr1 killer strain contains the killer virus Mbarr1 in addition to two L viruses, TdV-LAbarr1 and TdV-LBCbarr1. In contrast, the T. delbrueckii Kbarr2 killer strain contains two M killer viruses (Mbarr1 and M1) and a LBC virus (TdV-LBCbarr2), which has helper capability to maintain both M viruses. The genomes of TdV-LBCbarr1 and TdV-LBCbarr2 were characterized by high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Both RNA genomes share sequence identity and similar organization with their ScV-LBC counterparts. They contain all conserved motifs required for translation, packaging, and replication of viral RNA. Their Gag-Pol amino-acid sequences also contain the features required for cap-snatching and RNA polymerase activity. However, some of these motifs and features are similar to those of LA viruses, which may explain that at least TdV-LBCbarr2 has a helper ability to maintain M killer viruses. Newly sequenced ScV-LBC genomes contained the same motifs and features previously found in LBC viruses, with the same genome location and secondary structure. Sequence comparison showed that LBC viruses belong to two clusters related to each species of yeast. No evidence for associated co-evolution of specific LBC with specific M virus was found. The presence of the same M1 virus in S. cerevisiae and T. delbrueckii raises the possibility of cross-species transmission of M viruses.
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- Manuel Ramírez
- Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Microbiología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain; (R.V.); (A.M.)
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Microbiología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain; (R.V.); (A.M.)
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- Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain;
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas (Área de Microbiología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain; (R.V.); (A.M.)
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Dissimilation of synonymous codon usage bias in virus-host coevolution due to translational selection. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:589-600. [PMID: 32123323 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1124-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Eighteen of the 20 amino acids are each encoded by more than one synonymous codon. Due to differential transfer RNA supply within the cell, synonymous codons are not used with equal frequency, a phenomenon termed codon usage bias (CUB). Previous studies have demonstrated that CUB of endogenous genes trans-regulates the translational efficiency of other genes. We hypothesized similar effects for CUB of exogenous genes on host translation, and tested it in the case of viral infection, a common form of naturally occurring exogenous gene translation. We analysed public Ribo-Seq datasets from virus-infected yeast and human cells and showed that virus CUB trans-regulated tRNA availability, and therefore the relative decoding time of codons. Manipulative experiments in yeast using 37 synonymous fluorescent proteins confirmed that an exogenous gene with CUB more similar to that of the host would apply decreased translational load on the host per unit of expression, whereas expression of the exogenous gene was elevated. The combination of these two effects was that exogenous genes with CUB overly similar to that of the host severely impeded host translation. Finally, using a manually curated list of viruses and natural and symptomatic hosts, we found that virus CUB tended to be more similar to that of symptomatic hosts than that of natural hosts, supporting a general deleterious effect of excessive CUB similarity between virus and host. Our work revealed repulsion between virus and host CUBs when they are overly similar, a previously unrecognized complexity in the coevolution of virus and host.
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Strauss EE, Lakshman DK, Tavantzis SM. Molecular characterization of the genome of a partitivirus from the basidiomycete Rhizoctonia solani. J Gen Virol 2000; 81:549-55. [PMID: 10644855 DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-81-2-549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The bisegmented genome of a double-stranded (ds) RNA virus from the fungus Rhizoctonia solani isolate Rhs 717 was characterized. The larger segment, dsRNA 1, is 2363 bases long whereas the smaller segment, dsRNA 2, has 2206 bases. The 5' ends of the coding strands of dsRNA 1 and dsRNA 2 are highly conserved (100% identity over 47 bases), and contain inverted repeats capable of forming stable stem-loop structures. Analysis of the coding potential of each of the two segments showed that dsRNAs 1 and 2 could code for polypeptides of 730 aa (bases 86-2275; molecular mass 86 kDa) and 683 aa (bases 79-2130; molecular mass 76 kDa), respectively. The 86 kDa polypeptide has all the motifs of dsRNA RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RDRP), and has significant homology with putative RDRPs of partitiviruses from Fusarium poae and Atkinsonella hypoxylon. The 76 kDa protein shows homology with the putative capsid proteins (CP) of the same viruses. Northern blot analysis revealed no subgenomic RNA species, consistent with the fact that the long open reading frames encoding the putative RDRP and CP cover the entire length of the respective dsRNAs.
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- E E Strauss
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-0102, USA
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Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ. Coinfection of a fungal pathogen by two distinct double-stranded RNA viruses. Virology 1998; 252:399-406. [PMID: 9878619 DOI: 10.1006/viro.1998.9480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Unsegmented double-stranded (ds)RNA viruses belonging to the family Totiviridae persistently infect protozoa and fungi. In this study, two totiviruses were found to coinfect the filamentous fungus Sphaeropsis sapinea, a well known pathogen of pines. Isometric, virus-like particles approximately 35 nm in diameter were isolated from extracts of this fungus. The nucleotide sequences of the genomes of the two S. sapinea RNA viruses named SsRV1 and SsRV2 were established. The linear genomes of 5163 and 5202 bp, respectively, are identically organized with two large, overlapping ORFs. The 5' located ORF1 probably encodes the coat protein, whereas the gene product of ORF2 shows the typical features of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. The absence of a pseudoknot and a slippery site at the overlapping region between ORF1 and ORF2, as well as the shortness of that region, leads us to suggest that the translation of ORF2 of both viruses is internally initiated. The mode of translation and the genomic organization are similar to those of Helminthosporium victoriae 190S virus (Hv190SV; Huang, S., and Ghabrial, S. A. (1996). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 12541-12546). Hv190SV thus appears to be closely related to the SsRVs. Interestingly, based on amino acid sequence homology SsRV1 is more closely related to Hv190SV than to SsRV2.
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- O Preisig
- Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa
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Ribas JC, Wickner RB. RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity related to the 20S RNA replicon of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 1996; 12:1219-28. [PMID: 8905926 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0061(19960930)12:12%3c1219::aid-yea14%3e3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains two double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses (L-A and L-BC) and two different single-stranded (ssRNA) replicons (20S RNA and 23S RNA). Replicase (dsRNA synthesis on a ssRNA template) and transcriptase (ssRNA synthesis on a dsRNA template) activities have been described for L-A and L-BC viruses, but not for 20S or 23S RNA. We report the characterization of a new in vitro RNA replicase activity in S. cerevisiae. This activity is detected after partial purification of a particulate fraction in CsCl gradients where it migrates at the density of free protein. The activity does not require the presence of L-A or L-BC viruses or 23S RNA, and its presence or absence is correlated with the presence or absence of the 20S RNA replicon. Strains lacking both this RNA polymerase activity and 20S RNA acquire this activity when they acquire 20S RNA by cytoduction (cytoplasmic mixing). This polymerase activity converts added ssRNA to dsRNA by synthesis of the complementary strand, but has no specificity for the 3' end or internal template sequence. Although it replicates all tested RNA templates, it has a template size requirement, being unable to replicate templates larger than 1 kb. The replicase makes dsRNA from a ssRNA template, but many single-stranded products due to a terminal transferase activity are also formed. These results suggest that, in contrast to the L-A and L-BC RNA polymerases, dissociation of 20S RNA polymerase from its RNA (or perhaps some cellular factor) makes the enzyme change its specificity.
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- J C Ribas
- Section on Genetics of Simple Eukaryotes, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830, USA
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