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Yaghi RM, Andrews CL, Wylie DC, Iverson BL. High-Resolution Substrate Specificity Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 M pro; Comparison to SARS-CoV M pro. ACS Chem Biol 2024. [PMID: 38865301 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.4c00096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2 Mpro protease from COVID-19 cleaves the pp1a and pp2b polyproteins at 11 sites during viral maturation and is the target of Nirmatrelvir, one of the two components of the frontline treatment sold as Paxlovid. We used the YESS 2.0 platform, combining protease and substrate expression in the yeast endoplasmic reticulum with fluorescence-activated cell sorting and next-generation sequencing, to carry out the high-resolution substrate specificity profiling of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro as well as the related SARS-CoV Mpro from SARS 2003. Even at such a high level of resolution, the substrate specificity profiles of both enzymes are essentially identical. The population of cleaved substrates isolated in our sorts is so deep, the relative catalytic efficiencies of the different cleavage sites on the SARS-CoV-2 polyproteins pp1a and pp2b are qualitatively predicted. These results not only demonstrated the precise and reproducible nature of the YESS 2.0/NGS approach to protease substrate specificity profiling but also should be useful in the design of next generation SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors, and by analogy, SARS-CoV Mpro inhibitors as well.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rasha M Yaghi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States of America
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- Center of Biomedical Research Support, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States of America
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Huang H, Lei X, Zhao C, Qin Y, Li Y, Zhang X, Li C, Lan T, Zhao B, Sun W, Lu H, Jin N. Porcine deltacoronavirus nsp5 antagonizes type I interferon signaling by cleaving IFIT3. J Virol 2024; 98:e0168223. [PMID: 38289117 PMCID: PMC10878044 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01682-23] [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: 10/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
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Porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) has caused enormous economic losses to the global pig industry. However, the immune escape mechanism of PDCoV remains to be fully clarified. Transcriptomic analysis revealed a high abundance of interferon (IFN)-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 3 (IFIT3) transcripts after PDCoV infection, which initially implied a correlation between IFIT3 and PDCoV. Further studies showed that PDCoV nsp5 could antagonize the host type I interferon signaling pathway by cleaving IFIT3. We demonstrated that PDCoV nsp5 cleaved porcine IFIT3 (pIFIT3) at Gln-406. Similar cleavage of endogenous IFIT3 has also been observed in PDCoV-infected cells. The pIFIT3-Q406A mutant was resistant to nsp5-mediated cleavage and exhibited a greater ability to inhibit PDCoV infection than wild-type pIFIT3. Furthermore, we found that cleavage of IFIT3 is a common characteristic of nsp5 proteins of human coronaviruses, albeit not alphacoronavirus. This finding suggests that the cleavage of IFIT3 is an important mechanism by which PDCoV nsp5 antagonizes IFN signaling. Our study provides new insights into the mechanisms by which PDCoV antagonizes the host innate immune response.IMPORTANCEPorcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) is a potential emerging zoonotic pathogen, and studies on the prevalence and pathogenesis of PDCoV are ongoing. The main protease (nsp5) of PDCoV provides an excellent target for antivirals due to its essential and conserved function in the viral replication cycle. Previous studies have revealed that nsp5 of PDCoV antagonizes type I interferon (IFN) production by targeting the interferon-stimulated genes. Here, we provide the first demonstration that nsp5 of PDCoV antagonizes IFN signaling by cleaving IFIT3, which affects the IFN response after PDCoV infection. Our findings reveal that PDCoV nsp5 is an important interferon antagonist and enhance the understanding of immune evasion by deltacoronaviruses.
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- Haixin Huang
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Institute of Virology, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Changchun Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, Shaanxi, China
- Changchun Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, China
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