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Evseev D, Magor KE. Molecular Evolution of the Influenza A Virus Non-structural Protein 1 in Interspecies Transmission and Adaptation. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:693204. [PMID: 34671321 PMCID: PMC8521145 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.693204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
The non-structural protein 1 (NS1) of influenza A viruses plays important roles in viral fitness and in the process of interspecies adaptation. It is one of the most polymorphic and mutation-tolerant proteins of the influenza A genome, but its evolutionary patterns in different host species and the selective pressures that underlie them are hard to define. In this review, we highlight some of the species-specific molecular signatures apparent in different NS1 proteins and discuss two functions of NS1 in the process of viral adaptation to new host species. First, we consider the ability of NS1 proteins to broadly suppress host protein expression through interaction with CPSF4. This NS1 function can be spontaneously lost and regained through mutation and must be balanced against the need for host co-factors to aid efficient viral replication. Evidence suggests that this function of NS1 may be selectively lost in the initial stages of viral adaptation to some new host species. Second, we explore the ability of NS1 proteins to inhibit antiviral interferon signaling, an essential function for viral replication without which the virus is severely attenuated in any host. Innate immune suppression by NS1 not only enables viral replication in tissues, but also dampens the adaptive immune response and immunological memory. NS1 proteins suppress interferon signaling and effector functions through a variety of protein-protein interactions that may differ from host to host but must achieve similar goals. The multifunctional influenza A virus NS1 protein is highly plastic, highly versatile, and demonstrates a diversity of context-dependent solutions to the problem of interspecies adaptation.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Li Ka Shing Institute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Shaldzhyan AA, Zabrodskaya YA, Baranovskaya IL, Sergeeva MV, Gorshkov AN, Savin II, Shishlyannikov SM, Ramsay ES, Protasov AV, Kukhareva AP, Egorov VV. Old dog, new tricks: Influenza A virus NS1 and in vitro fibrillogenesis. Biochimie 2021; 190:50-56. [PMID: 34273416 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2021.07.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The influenza NS1 protein is involved in suppression of the host immune response. Recently, there is growing evidence that prion-like protein aggregation plays an important role in cellular signaling and immune responses. In this work, we obtained a recombinant, influenza A NS1 protein and showed that it is able to form amyloid-like fibrils in vitro. Using proteolysis and subsequent mass spectrometry, we showed that regions resistant to protease hydrolysis highly differ between the native NS1 form (NS1-N) and fibrillar form (NS1-F); this indicates that significant structural changes occur during fibril formation. We also found a protein fragment that is capable of inducing the process of fibrillogenesis at 37 °C. The discovery of the ability of NS1 to form amyloid-like fibrils may be relevant to uncovering relationships between influenza A infection and modulation of the immune response.
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- A A Shaldzhyan
- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute Named By B. P. Konstantinov of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 188300, mkr. Orlova Roshcha 1, Gatchina, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute Named By B. P. Konstantinov of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 188300, mkr. Orlova Roshcha 1, Gatchina, Russia; National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova Sq. 1, Moscow, Russia; Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 194064, Polyteknicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 194064, Polyteknicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; All-Russia Research Institute for Food Additives - Branch of V.M. Gorbatov Federal Research Center for Food Systems of RAS, 191014, Liteyny Av. 55, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 194064, Polyteknicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Russian Ministry of Health, 197376, Prof. Popov 15/17, St. Petersburg, Russia; Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute Named By B. P. Konstantinov of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", 188300, mkr. Orlova Roshcha 1, Gatchina, Russia; National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute, 123182, Akademika Kurchatova Sq. 1, Moscow, Russia; Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Institute of Experimental Medicine", 197376, Akademika Pavlova 12, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Baranovskaya IL, Sergeeva MV, Taraskin AS, Lozhkov AA, Vasin AV. Mutations designed to modify the NS gene mRNA secondary structure affect influenza A pathogenicity <em>in vivo</em>. MICROBIOLOGY INDEPENDENT RESEARCH JOURNAL 2021. [DOI: 10.18527/2500-2236-2021-8-1-1-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The influenza A virus genome consists of eight segments of negative-sense RNA that encode up to 18 proteins. During the process of viral replication, positive-sense (+)RNA (cRNA) or messenger RNA (mRNA) is synthesized. Today, there is only a partial understanding of the function of several secondary structures within vRNA and cRNA promoters, and splice sites in the M and NS genes. The most precise secondary structure of (+)RNA has been determined for the NS segment of influenza A virus. The influenza A virus NS gene features two regions with a conserved mRNA secondary structure located near splice sites. Here, we compared 4 variants of the A/Puerto Rico/8/1934 strain featuring different combinations of secondary structures at the NS segment (+)RNA regions 82-148 and 497-564. We found that RNA structures did not affect viral replication in cell culture. However, one of the viruses demonstrated lower NS1 and NEP expression levels during early stage cell infection as well as reduced pathogenicity in mice compared to other variants. In particular, this virus is characterized by an RNA hairpin in the 82-148 region and a stable hairpin in the 497-564 region.
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- I. L. Baranovskaya
- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza;
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza;
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza;
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
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- Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza;
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
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