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Mushtaq H, Shah SS, Zarlashat Y, Iqbal M, Abbas W. Cell Culture Adaptive Amino Acid Substitutions in FMDV Structural Proteins: A Key Mechanism for Altered Receptor Tropism. Viruses 2024; 16:512. [PMID: 38675855 PMCID: PMC11054764 DOI: 10.3390/v16040512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 02/21/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024] Open
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The foot-and-mouth disease virus is a highly contagious and economically devastating virus of cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, buffalo, sheep, and goats, causing reduced animal productivity and posing international trade restrictions. For decades, chemically inactivated vaccines have been serving as the most effective strategy for the management of foot-and-mouth disease. Inactivated vaccines are commercially produced in cell culture systems, which require successful propagation and adaptation of field isolates, demanding a high cost and laborious time. Cell culture adaptation is chiefly indebted to amino acid substitutions in surface-exposed capsid proteins, altering the necessity of RGD-dependent receptors to heparan sulfate macromolecules for virus binding. Several amino acid substations in VP1, VP2, and VP3 capsid proteins of FMDV, both at structural and functional levels, have been characterized previously. This literature review combines frequently reported amino acid substitutions in virus capsid proteins, their critical roles in virus adaptation, and functional characterization of the substitutions. Furthermore, this data can facilitate molecular virologists to develop new vaccine strains against the foot-and-mouth disease virus, revolutionizing vaccinology via reverse genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
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- Hassan Mushtaq
- Health Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-C (NIBGE), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (H.M.); (M.I.)
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
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- Department of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Hazara University, Mansehra 21300, Pakistan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Government College University, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan
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- Health Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-C (NIBGE), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (H.M.); (M.I.)
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
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- Health Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering-C (NIBGE), Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan; (H.M.); (M.I.)
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Islamabad 45650, Pakistan
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Deng T, Du L, Ding S, Peng X, Chen W, Yan Y, Hu B, Zhou J. Protein kinase Cdc7 supports viral replication by phosphorylating Avibirnavirus VP3 protein. J Virol 2023; 97:e0112523. [PMID: 37902398 PMCID: PMC10688373 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01125-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/31/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE The Avibirnavirus infectious bursal disease virus is still an important agent which largely threatens global poultry farming industry economics. VP3 is a multifunctional scaffold structural protein that is involved in virus morphogenesis and the regulation of diverse cellular signaling pathways. However, little is known about the roles of VP3 phosphorylation during the IBDV life cycle. In this study, we determined that IBDV infection induced the upregulation of Cdc7 expression and phosphorylated the VP3 Ser13 site to promote viral replication. Moreover, we confirmed that the negative charge addition of phosphoserine on VP3 at the S13 site was essential for IBDV proliferation. This study provides novel insight into the molecular mechanisms of VP3 phosphorylation-mediated regulation of IBDV replication.
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- Tingjuan Deng
- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center and State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- MOA Key Laboratory of Animal Virology, Center for Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center and State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Jiao H, Yan Z, Zhai X, Yang Y, Wang N, Li X, Jiang Z, Su S. Transcriptome screening identifies TIPARP as an antiviral host factor against the Getah virus. J Virol 2023; 97:e0059123. [PMID: 37768084 PMCID: PMC10617542 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00591-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Alphaviruses threaten public health continuously, and Getah virus (GETV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that can potentially infect humans. Approved antiviral drugs and vaccines against alphaviruses are few available, but several host antiviral factors have been reported. Here, we used GETV as a model of alphaviruses to screen for additional host factors. Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-inducible poly(ADP ribose) polymerase was identified to inhibit GETV replication by inducing ubiquitination of the glycoprotein E2, causing its degradation by recruiting the E3 ubiquitin ligase membrane-associated RING-CH8 (MARCH8). Using GETV as a model virus, focusing on the relationship between viral structural proteins and host factors to screen antiviral host factors provides new insights for antiviral studies on alphaviruses.
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- Houqi Jiao
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Institute of Immunology and College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
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Sucharita S, Krishnagopal A, van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk S. Comprehensive Analysis of the Tegument Proteins Involved in Capsid Transport and Virion Morphogenesis of Alpha, Beta and Gamma Herpesviruses. Viruses 2023; 15:2058. [PMID: 37896835 PMCID: PMC10611259 DOI: 10.3390/v15102058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Revised: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Herpesviruses are enveloped and have an amorphous protein layer surrounding the capsid, which is termed the tegument. Tegument proteins perform critical functions throughout the viral life cycle. This review provides a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the roles of specific tegument proteins in capsid transport and virion morphogenesis of selected, well-studied prototypes of each of the three subfamilies of Herpesviridae i.e., human herpesvirus-1/herpes simplex virus-1 (Alphaherpesvirinae), human herpesvirus-5/cytomegalovirus (Betaherpesvirinae) and human herpesvirus -8/Kaposi's sarcomavirus (Gammaherpesvirinae). Most of the current knowledge is based on alpha herpesviruses, in particular HSV-1. While some tegument proteins are released into the cytoplasm after virus entry, several tegument proteins remain associated with the capsid and are responsible for transport to and docking at the nucleus. After replication and capsid formation, the capsid is enveloped at the nuclear membrane, which is referred to as primary envelopment, followed by de-envelopment and release into the cytoplasm. This requires involvement of at least three tegument proteins. Subsequently, multiple interactions between tegument proteins and capsid proteins, other tegument proteins and glycoproteins are required for assembly of the virus particles and envelopment at the Golgi, with certain tegument proteins acting as the central hub for these interactions. Some redundancy in these interactions ensures appropriate morphogenesis.
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- Soumya Sucharita
- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada; (S.S.); (A.K.)
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada
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- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada; (S.S.); (A.K.)
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada
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- Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada; (S.S.); (A.K.)
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada
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Salgueiro M, Camporeale G, Visentin A, Aran M, Pellizza L, Esperante SA, Corbat A, Grecco H, Sousa B, Esperón R, Borkosky SS, de Prat-Gay G. Molten Globule Driven and Self-downmodulated Phase Separation of a Viral Factory Scaffold. J Mol Biol 2023; 435:168153. [PMID: 37210029 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Revised: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Viral factories of liquid-like nature serve as sites for transcription and replication in most viruses. The respiratory syncytial virus factories include replication proteins, brought together by the phosphoprotein (P) RNA polymerase cofactor, present across non-segmented negative stranded RNA viruses. Homotypic liquid-liquid phase separation of RSV-P is governed by an α-helical molten globule domain, and strongly self-downmodulated by adjacent sequences. Condensation of P with the nucleoprotein N is stoichiometrically tuned, defining aggregate-droplet and droplet-dissolution boundaries. Time course analysis show small N-P nuclei gradually coalescing into large granules in transfected cells. This behavior is recapitulated in infection, with small puncta evolving to large viral factories, strongly suggesting that P-N nucleation-condensation sequentially drives viral factories. Thus, the tendency of P to undergo phase separation is moderate and latent in the full-length protein but unleashed in the presence of N or when neighboring disordered sequences are deleted. This, together with its capacity to rescue nucleoprotein-RNA aggregates suggests a role as a "solvent-protein".
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- Mariano Salgueiro
- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (FCEN), Universidad de Buenos Aires, and IFIBA, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA) CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Zhang C, Lu LF, Li ZC, Han KJ, Wang XL, Chen DD, Xiong F, Li XY, Zhou L, Ge F, Li S. Zebrafish MAP2K7 Simultaneously Enhances Host IRF7 Stability and Degrades Spring Viremia of Carp Virus P Protein via Ubiquitination Pathway. J Virol 2023; 97:e0053223. [PMID: 37367226 PMCID: PMC10373533 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00532-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 06/11/2023] [Indexed: 06/28/2023] Open
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During viral infection, host defensive proteins either enhance the host immune response or antagonize viral components directly. In this study, we report on the following two mechanisms employed by zebrafish mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 7 (MAP2K7) to protect the host during spring viremia of carp virus (SVCV) infection: stabilization of host IRF7 and degradation of SVCV P protein. In vivo, map2k7+/- (map2k7-/- is a lethal mutation) zebrafish showed a higher lethality, more pronounced tissue damage, and more viral proteins in major immune organs than the controls. At the cellular level, overexpression of map2k7 significantly enhanced host cell antiviral capacity, and viral replication and proliferation were significantly suppressed. Additionally, MAP2K7 interacted with the C terminus of IRF7 and stabilized IRF7 by increasing K63-linked polyubiquitination. On the other hand, during MAP2K7 overexpression, SVCV P proteins were significantly decreased. Further analysis demonstrated that SVCV P protein was degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, as the attenuation of K63-linked polyubiquitination was mediated by MAP2K7. Furthermore, the deubiquitinase USP7 was indispensable in P protein degradation. These results confirm the dual functions of MAP2K7 during viral infection. IMPORTANCE Normally, during viral infection, host antiviral factors individually modulate the host immune response or antagonize viral components to defense infection. In the present study, we report that zebrafish MAP2K7 plays a crucial positive role in the host antiviral process. According to the weaker antiviral capacity of map2k7+/- zebrafish than that of the control, we find that MAP2K7 reduces host lethality through two pathways, as follows: enhancing K63-linked polyubiquitination to promote host IRF7 stability and attenuating K63-mediated polyubiquitination to degrade the SVCV P protein. These two mechanisms of MAP2K7 reveal a special antiviral response in lower vertebrates.
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- Can Zhang
- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, The Innovative Academy of Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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Hu X, Chen Z, Wu X, Fu Q, Chen Z, Huang Y, Wu H. PRMT5 Facilitates Infectious Bursal Disease Virus Replication through Arginine Methylation of VP1. J Virol 2023; 97:e0163722. [PMID: 36786602 PMCID: PMC10062139 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01637-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 01/22/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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The infectious bursal diseases virus (IBDV) polymerase, VP1 protein, is responsible for transcription, initial translation and viral genomic replication. Knowledge about the new kind of post-translational modification of VP1 supports identification of novel drugs against the virus. Because the arginine residue is known to be methylated by protein arginine methyltransferase (PRMT) enzyme, we investigated whether IBDV VP1 is a substrate for known PRMTs. In this study, we show that VP1 is specifically associated with and methylated by PRMT5 at the arginine 426 (R426) residue. IBDV infection causes the accumulation of PRMT5 in the cytoplasm, which colocalizes with VP1 as a punctate structure. In addition, ectopic expression of PRMT5 significantly enhances the viral replication. In the presence of PMRT5, enzyme inhibitor and knockout of PRMT5 remarkably decreased viral replication. The polymerase activity of VP1 was severely damaged when R426 mutated to alanine, resulting in impaired viral replication. Our study reports a novel form of post-translational modification of VP1, which supports its polymerase function to facilitate the viral replication. IMPORTANCE Post-translational modification of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) VP1 is important for the regulation of its polymerase activity. Investigation of the significance of specific modification of VP1 can lead to better understanding of viral replication and can probably also help in identifying novel targets for antiviral compounds. Our work demonstrates the molecular mechanism of VP1 methylation mediated by PRMT5, which is critical for viral polymerase activity, as well as viral replication. Our study expands a novel insight into the function of arginine methylation of VP1, which might be useful for limiting the replication of IBDV.
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- Xifeng Hu
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Animal Health, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Animal Health, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Animal Health, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fuzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
- Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory for Animal Health, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
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Westcott CE, Qazi S, Maiocco AM, Mukhopadhyay S, Sokoloski KJ. Binding of hnRNP I-vRNA Regulates Sindbis Virus Structural Protein Expression to Promote Particle Infectivity. Viruses 2022; 14:v14071423. [PMID: 35891402 PMCID: PMC9318202 DOI: 10.3390/v14071423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2022] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 06/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
Alphaviruses cause significant outbreaks of febrile illness and debilitating multi-joint arthritis for prolonged periods after initial infection. We have previously reported that several host hnRNP proteins bind to the Sindbis virus (SINV) RNAs, and disrupting the sites of these RNA-protein interactions results in decreased viral titers in tissue culture models of infection. Intriguingly, the primary molecular defect associated with the disruption of the hnRNP interactions is enhanced viral structural protein expression; however, the precise underlying mechanisms spurring the enhanced gene expression remain unknown. Moreover, our previous efforts were unable to functionally dissect whether the observed phenotypes were due to the loss of hnRNP binding or the incorporation of polymorphisms into the primary nucleotide sequence of SINV. To determine if the loss of hnRNP binding was the primary cause of attenuation or if the disruption of the RNA sequence itself was responsible for the observed phenotypes, we utilized an innovative protein tethering approach to restore the binding of the hnRNP proteins in the absence of the native interaction site. Specifically, we reconstituted the hnRNP I interaction by incorporating the 20nt bovine immunodeficiency virus transactivation RNA response (BIV-TAR) at the site of the native hnRNP I interaction sequence, which will bind with high specificity to proteins tagged with a TAT peptide. The reestablishment of the hnRNP I-vRNA interaction via the BIV-TAR/TAT tethering approach restored the phenotype back to wild-type levels. This included an apparent decrease in structural protein expression in the absence of the native primary nucleotide sequences corresponding to the hnRNP I interaction site. Collectively, the characterization of the hnRNP I interaction site elucidated the role of hnRNPs during viral infection.
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- Claire E. Westcott
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA;
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University—Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; (S.Q.); (S.M.)
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- Center for Predictive Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA;
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University—Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; (S.Q.); (S.M.)
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA;
- Center for Predictive Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-(502)-852-1249
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Hu CT, Diaz K, Yang LC, Sharma A, Greenberg HB, Smith JG. VP4 Is a Determinant of Alpha-Defensin Modulation of Rotaviral Infection. J Virol 2022; 96:e0205321. [PMID: 35285683 PMCID: PMC9006894 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02053-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fecal-oral pathogens encounter constitutively expressed enteric alpha-defensins in the intestine during replication and transmission. Alpha-defensins can be potently antiviral and antibacterial; however, their primary sequences, the number of isoforms, and their activity against specific microorganisms often vary greatly between species, reflecting adaptation to species-specific pathogens. Therefore, alpha-defensins might influence not only microbial evolution and tissue tropism within a host but also species tropism and zoonotic potential. To investigate these concepts, we generated a panel of enteric and myeloid alpha-defensins from humans, rhesus macaques, and mice and tested their activity against group A rotaviruses, an important enteric viral pathogen of humans and animals. Rotaviral adaptation to the rhesus macaque correlated with resistance to rhesus enteric, but not myeloid, alpha-defensins and sensitivity to human alpha-defensins. While mouse rotaviral infection was increased in the presence of mouse enteric alpha-defensins, two prominent genotypes of human rotaviruses were differentially sensitive to human enteric alpha-defensins. Furthermore, the effects of cross-species alpha-defensins on human and mouse rotaviruses did not follow an obvious pattern. Thus, exposure to alpha-defensins may have shaped the evolution of some, but not all, rotaviruses. We then used a genetic approach to identify the viral attachment and penetration protein, VP4, as a determinant of alpha-defensin sensitivity. Our results provide a foundation for future studies of the VP4-dependent mechanism of defensin neutralization, highlight the species-specific activities of alpha-defensins, and focus future efforts on a broader range of rotaviruses that differ in VP4 to uncover the potential for enteric alpha-defensins to influence species tropism. IMPORTANCE Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe diarrhea in young children. Like other fecal-oral pathogens, rotaviruses encounter abundant, constitutively expressed defensins in the small intestine. These peptides are a vital part of the vertebrate innate immune system. By investigating the impact that defensins from multiple species have on the infectivity of different strains of rotavirus, we show that some rotaviral infections can be inhibited by defensins. We also found that some, but not all, rotaviruses may have evolved resistance to defensins in the intestine of their host species, and some even appropriate defensins to increase their infectivity. Because rotaviruses infect a broad range of animals and rotaviral infections are highly prevalent in children, identifying immune defenses against infection and how they vary across species and among viral genotypes is important for our understanding of the evolution, transmission, and zoonotic potential of these viruses as well as the improvement of vaccines.
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- Ciara T. Hu
- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Ongwae GM, Chordia MD, Cawley JL, Dalesandro BE, Wittenberg NJ, Pires MM. Targeting of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cell surface via GP12, an Escherichia coli specific bacteriophage protein. Sci Rep 2022; 12:721. [PMID: 35031652 PMCID: PMC8760310 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04627-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Bacteriophages are highly abundant molecular machines that have evolved proteins to target the surface of host bacterial cells. Given the ubiquity of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) on the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, we reasoned that targeting proteins from bacteriophages could be leveraged to target the surface of Gram-negative pathogens for biotechnological applications. To this end, a short tail fiber (GP12) from the T4 bacteriophage, which infects Escherichia coli (E. coli), was isolated and tested for the ability to adhere to whole bacterial cells. We found that, surprisingly, GP12 effectively bound the surface of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells despite the established preferred host of T4 for E. coli. In efforts to elucidate why this binding pattern was observed, it was determined that the absence of the O-antigen region of LPS on E. coli improved cell surface tagging. This indicated that O-antigens play a significant role in controlling cell adhesion by T4. Probing GP12 and LPS interactions further using deletions of the enzymes involved in the biosynthetic pathway of LPS revealed the inner core oligosaccharide as a possible main target of GP12. Finally, we demonstrated the potential utility of GP12 for biomedical applications by showing that GP12-modified agarose beads resulted in the depletion of pathogenic bacteria from solution.
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- George M Ongwae
- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
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Santoni D, Ghosh N, Saha I. An entropy-based study on mutational trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 in India. Infect Genet Evol 2022; 97:105154. [PMID: 34808395 PMCID: PMC8603812 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.105154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The pandemic of COVID-19 has been haunting us for almost the past two years. Although, the vaccination drive is in full swing throughout the world, different mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are making it very difficult to put an end to the pandemic. The second wave in India, one of the worst sufferers of this pandemic, can be mainly attributed to the Delta variant i.e. B.1.617.2. Thus, it is very important to analyse and understand the mutational trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 through the study of the 26 virus proteins. In this regard, more than 17,000 protein sequences of Indian SARS-CoV-2 genomes are analysed using entropy-based approach in order to find the monthly mutational trajectory. Furthermore, Hellinger distance is also used to show the difference of the mutation events between the consecutive months for each of the 26 SARS-CoV-2 protein. The results show that the mutation rates and the mutation events of the viral proteins though changing in the initial months, start stabilizing later on for mainly the four structural proteins while the non-structural proteins mostly exhibit a more constant trend. As a consequence, it can be inferred that the evolution of the new mutative configurations will eventually reduce.
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- Daniele Santoni
- Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science "Antonio Ruberti", National Research Council of Italy, Via dei Taurini 19, Rome 00185, Italy.
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- Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Ren X, Qian P, Liu S, Chen H, Li X. Fc-Mediated E2-Dimer Subunit Vaccines of Atypical Porcine Pestivirus Induce Efficient Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses in Piglets. Viruses 2021; 13:v13122443. [PMID: 34960713 PMCID: PMC8703287 DOI: 10.3390/v13122443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2021] [Revised: 11/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
Abstract
Congenital tremor (CT) type A-II in piglets is caused by an emerging atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV), which is prevalent in swine herds and a serious threat to the pig production industry. This study aimed to construct APPV E2 subunit vaccines fused with Fc fragments and evaluate their immunogenicity in piglets. Here, APPV E2Fc and E2ΔFc fusion proteins expressed in Drosophila Schneider 2 (S2) cells were demonstrated to form stable dimers in SDS-PAGE and western blotting assays. Functional analysis revealed that aE2Fc and aE2ΔFc fusion proteins could bind to FcγRI on antigen-presenting cells (APCs), with the affinity of aE2Fc to FcγRI being higher than that of aE2ΔFc. Moreover, subunit vaccines based on aE2, aE2Fc, and aE2ΔFc fusion proteins were prepared, and their immunogenicity was evaluated in piglets. The results showed that the Fc fusion proteins emulsified with the ISA 201VG adjuvant elicited stronger humoral and cellular immune responses than the IMS 1313VG adjuvant. These findings suggest that APPV E2 subunit vaccines fused with Fc fragments may be a promising vaccine candidate against APPV.
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- Xujiao Ren
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.R.); (P.Q.); (S.L.); (H.C.)
- Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.R.); (P.Q.); (S.L.); (H.C.)
- Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.R.); (P.Q.); (S.L.); (H.C.)
- Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.R.); (P.Q.); (S.L.); (H.C.)
- Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (X.R.); (P.Q.); (S.L.); (H.C.)
- Laboratory of Animal Virology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
- Key Laboratory of Preventive Veterinary Medicine in Hubei Province, The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Wuhan 430070, China
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +86-27-87282608
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Hiyoshi M, Takahashi N, Eltalkhawy YM, Noyori O, Lotfi S, Panaampon J, Okada S, Tanaka Y, Ueno T, Fujisawa JI, Sato Y, Suzuki T, Hasegawa H, Tokunaga M, Satou Y, Yasunaga JI, Matsuoka M, Utsunomiya A, Suzu S. M-Sec induced by HTLV-1 mediates an efficient viral transmission. PLoS Pathog 2021; 17:e1010126. [PMID: 34843591 PMCID: PMC8659635 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1010126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infects target cells primarily through cell-to-cell routes. Here, we provide evidence that cellular protein M-Sec plays a critical role in this process. When purified and briefly cultured, CD4+ T cells of HTLV-1 carriers, but not of HTLV-1- individuals, expressed M-Sec. The viral protein Tax was revealed to mediate M-Sec induction. Knockdown or pharmacological inhibition of M-Sec reduced viral infection in multiple co-culture conditions. Furthermore, M-Sec knockdown reduced the number of proviral copies in the tissues of a mouse model of HTLV-1 infection. Phenotypically, M-Sec knockdown or inhibition reduced not only plasma membrane protrusions and migratory activity of cells, but also large clusters of Gag, a viral structural protein required for the formation of viral particles. Taken together, these results suggest that M-Sec induced by Tax mediates an efficient cell-to-cell viral infection, which is likely due to enhanced membrane protrusions, cell migration, and the clustering of Gag. In the present study, we identified the cellular protein M-Sec as a host factor necessary for de novo infection of human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), the causative retrovirus of an aggressive blood cancer known as adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma. The inhibition or knockdown of M-Sec in infected cells resulted in a reduced viral infection in several culture models and a mouse model. We recently demonstrated a similar role of M-Sec in macrophages infected with another human retrovirus HIV-1, but it has been generally thought that M-Sec is not related to HTLV-1 infection because of the lack of its expression in CD4+ T cells, the major target of HTLV-1. In this study, we revealed that CD4+ T cells of HTLV-1 asymptomatic carriers, but not those of HTLV-1- individuals, expressed M-Sec, and that the viral protein Tax mediated the induction of M-Sec. Thus, M-Sec is a new and useful tool for further understanding the process of HTLV-1 transmission.
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- Masateru Hiyoshi
- Department of Safety Research on Blood and Biological Products, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
- * E-mail: (MH); (SS)
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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- Department of Microbiology, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Imamura General Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan
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- Department of Hematology, Imamura General Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan
- Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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- Joint Research Center for Human Retrovirus Infection, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
- * E-mail: (MH); (SS)
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Gargan S, Stevenson NJ. Unravelling the Immunomodulatory Effects of Viral Ion Channels, towards the Treatment of Disease. Viruses 2021; 13:2165. [PMID: 34834972 PMCID: PMC8618147 DOI: 10.3390/v13112165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 10/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for the research community to develop a better understanding of viruses, in particular their modes of infection and replicative lifecycles, to aid in the development of novel vaccines and much needed anti-viral therapeutics. Several viruses express proteins capable of forming pores in host cellular membranes, termed "Viroporins". They are a family of small hydrophobic proteins, with at least one amphipathic domain, which characteristically form oligomeric structures with central hydrophilic domains. Consequently, they can facilitate the transport of ions through the hydrophilic core. Viroporins localise to host membranes such as the endoplasmic reticulum and regulate ion homeostasis creating a favourable environment for viral infection. Viroporins also contribute to viral immune evasion via several mechanisms. Given that viroporins are often essential for virion assembly and egress, and as their structural features tend to be evolutionarily conserved, they are attractive targets for anti-viral therapeutics. This review discusses the current knowledge of several viroporins, namely Influenza A virus (IAV) M2, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 Viral protein U (Vpu), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) p7, Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-16 E5, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Open Reading Frame (ORF)3a and Polyomavirus agnoprotein. We highlight the intricate but broad immunomodulatory effects of these viroporins and discuss the current antiviral therapies that target them; continually highlighting the need for future investigations to focus on novel therapeutics in the treatment of existing and future emergent viruses.
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- Siobhan Gargan
- Viral Immunology Group, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland;
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- Viral Immunology Group, School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland;
- Viral Immunology Group, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain, Manama 15503, Bahrain
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Sucharita S, Zhang K, van Drunen Littel-van den Hurk S. VP8, the Major Tegument Protein of Bovine Herpesvirus-1, Is Partially Packaged during Early Tegument Formation in a VP22-Dependent Manner. Viruses 2021; 13:v13091854. [PMID: 34578435 PMCID: PMC8472402 DOI: 10.3390/v13091854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) is a major cause of rhinotracheitis and vulvovaginitis in cattle. VP8, the major tegument protein of BoHV-1, is essential for viral replication in the host. VP8 is phosphorylated by the viral kinase US3, mediating its translocation to the cytoplasm. VP8 remains nuclear when not phosphorylated. Interestingly, VP8 has a significant presence in mature BoHV-1YmVP8, in which the VP8 phosphorylation sites are mutated. This suggests that VP8 might be packaged during primary envelopment of BoHV-1. This was investigated by mass spectrometry and Western blotting, which showed VP8, as well as VP22, to be constituents of the primary enveloped virions. VP8 and VP22 were shown to interact via co-immunoprecipitation experiments, in both BoHV-1-infected and VP8-transfected cells. VP8 and VP22 also co-localised with one another and with nuclear lamin-associated protein 2 in BoHV-1-infected cells, suggesting an interaction between VP8 and VP22 in the perinuclear region. In cells infected with VP22-deleted BoHV-1 (BoHV-1ΔUL49), VP8 was absent from the primary enveloped virions, implying that VP22 might be critical for the early packaging of VP8. In conclusion, a novel VP22-dependent mechanism for packaging of VP8 was identified, which may be responsible for a significant amount of VP8 in the viral particle.
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- Soumya Sucharita
- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada;
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
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- Department of Virology and Immunology, Shanghai Virogin Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Shanghai 201108, China;
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada;
- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E5, Canada
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-(306)-966-1559
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Lechuga GC, Souza-Silva F, Sacramento CQ, Trugilho MRO, Valente RH, Napoleão-Pêgo P, Dias SSG, Fintelman-Rodrigues N, Temerozo JR, Carels N, Alves CR, Pereira MCS, Provance DW, Souza TML, De-Simone SG. SARS-CoV-2 Proteins Bind to Hemoglobin and Its Metabolites. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:9035. [PMID: 34445741 PMCID: PMC8396565 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22169035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2021] [Revised: 07/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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(1) Background: coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been linked to hematological dysfunctions, but there are little experimental data that explain this. Spike (S) and Nucleoprotein (N) proteins have been putatively associated with these dysfunctions. In this work, we analyzed the recruitment of hemoglobin (Hb) and other metabolites (hemin and protoporphyrin IX-PpIX) by SARS-Cov2 proteins using different approaches. (2) Methods: shotgun proteomics (LC-MS/MS) after affinity column adsorption identified hemin-binding SARS-CoV-2 proteins. The parallel synthesis of the peptides technique was used to study the interaction of the receptor bind domain (RBD) and N-terminal domain (NTD) of the S protein with Hb and in silico analysis to identify the binding motifs of the N protein. The plaque assay was used to investigate the inhibitory effect of Hb and the metabolites hemin and PpIX on virus adsorption and replication in Vero cells. (3) Results: the proteomic analysis by LC-MS/MS identified the S, N, M, Nsp3, and Nsp7 as putative hemin-binding proteins. Six short sequences in the RBD and 11 in the NTD of the spike were identified by microarray of peptides to interact with Hb and tree motifs in the N protein by in silico analysis to bind with heme. An inhibitory effect in vitro of Hb, hemin, and PpIX at different levels was observed. Strikingly, free Hb at 1mM suppressed viral replication (99%), and its interaction with SARS-CoV-2 was localized into the RBD region of the spike protein. (4) Conclusions: in this study, we identified that (at least) five proteins (S, N, M, Nsp3, and Nsp7) of SARS-CoV-2 recruit Hb/metabolites. The motifs of the RDB of SARS-CoV-2 spike, which binds Hb, and the sites of the heme bind-N protein were disclosed. In addition, these compounds and PpIX block the virus's adsorption and replication. Furthermore, we also identified heme-binding motifs and interaction with hemin in N protein and other structural (S and M) and non-structural (Nsp3 and Nsp7) proteins.
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- Guilherme C. Lechuga
- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Laboratory of Celular Ultrastructure, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Biology and Heath Science Faculty, Iguaçu University, Nova Iguaçu 26260-045, RJ, Brazil
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Laboratory of Toxinology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratory of Toxinology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
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- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratory of Thymus Research, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
- FIOCRUZ, National Institute for Science and Technology on Neuroimmunomodulation (INCT/NIM), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Biology and Heath Science Faculty, Iguaçu University, Nova Iguaçu 26260-045, RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Endemic Diseases, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- Laboratory of Celular Ultrastructure, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Laboratory of Immunopharmacology, FIOCRUZ, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil;
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- FIOCRUZ, Center for Technological Development in Health (CDTS), National Institute of Science and Technology for Innovation on Neglected Population Diseases (INCT-IDPN), Rio de Janeiro 21040-900, RJ, Brazil; (G.C.L.); (F.S.-S.); (C.Q.S.); (M.R.O.T.); (P.N.-P.); (N.F.-R.); (N.C.); (D.W.P.J.); (T.M.L.S.)
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Biology Institute, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói 24020-141, RJ, Brazil
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Stanbekova G, Beisenov D, Nizkorodova A, Iskakov B, Warzecha H. Production of the sheep pox virus structural protein SPPV117 in tobacco chloroplasts. Biotechnol Lett 2021; 43:1475-1485. [PMID: 33797655 PMCID: PMC8017516 DOI: 10.1007/s10529-021-03117-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE A chloroplast transgenic approach was assessed in order to produce a structural protein SPPV117 of sheep pox virus in Nicotiana tabacum for the future development of a plant-based subunit vaccine against sheep pox. RESULTS Two DNA constructs containing SPPV117 coding sequence under the control of chloroplast promoter and terminator of psbA gene or rrn promoter and rbcL terminator were designed and inserted into the chloroplast genome by a biolistic method. The transgenic plants were selected via PCR analysis. Northern and Western blot analysis showed expression of the transgene at transcriptional and translational levels, respectively. The recombinant protein accumulated to about 0.3% and 0.9% of total soluble protein in leaves when expressed from psbA and rrn promoter, respectively. Plant-produced SPPV117 protein was purified using metal affinity chromatography and the protein yield was 19.67 ± 1.25 µg g-1 (FW). The serum of a sheep infected with the virus recognised the chloroplast-produced protein indicating that the protein retains its antigenic properties. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that chloroplasts are a suitable system for the production of a candidate subunit vaccine against sheep pox.
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- Gulshan Stanbekova
- Protein and Nucleic Acids Research, M. Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Protein and Nucleic Acids Research, M. Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Protein and Nucleic Acids Research, M. Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Protein and Nucleic Acids Research, M. Aitkhozhin Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Plant Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Bisgin A, Sanlioglu AD, Eksi YE, Griffith TS, Sanlioglu S. Current Update on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccine Development with a Special Emphasis on Gene Therapy Viral Vector Design and Construction for Vaccination. Hum Gene Ther 2021; 32:541-562. [PMID: 33858231 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2021.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a newly emerging infectious disease (COVID-19) caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-coronavirus 2 (CoV-2). To combat the devastating spread of SARS-CoV-2, extraordinary efforts from numerous laboratories have focused on the development of effective and safe vaccines. Traditional live-attenuated or inactivated viral vaccines are not recommended for immunocompromised patients as the attenuated virus can still cause disease via phenotypic or genotypic reversion. Subunit vaccines require repeated dosing and adjuvant use to be effective, and DNA vaccines exhibit lower immune responses. mRNA vaccines can be highly unstable under physiological conditions. On the contrary, naturally antigenic viral vectors with well-characterized structure and safety profile serve as among the most effective gene carriers to provoke immune response via heterologous gene transfer. Viral vector-based vaccines induce both an effective cellular immune response and a humoral immune response owing to their natural adjuvant properties via transduction of immune cells. Consequently, viral vectored vaccines carrying the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein have recently been generated and successfully used to activate cytotoxic T cells and develop a neutralizing antibody response. Recent progress in SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, with an emphasis on gene therapy viral vector-based vaccine development, is discussed in this review.
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- Atil Bisgin
- The Department of Gene and Cell Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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- The Department of Gene and Cell Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
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- The Department of Gene and Cell Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
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- The Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- The Department of Gene and Cell Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
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Jin DY, Zheng BJ, Tang HMV. Mechanism of inflammasome activation by SARS coronavirus 3a protein: abridged secondary publication. Hong Kong Med J 2021; 27 Suppl 2:33-35. [PMID: 34075889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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- D Y Jin
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong
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S AH, Pujar GV, Sethu AK, Bhagyalalitha M, Singh M. Dengue structural proteins as antiviral drug targets: Current status in the drug discovery & development. Eur J Med Chem 2021; 221:113527. [PMID: 34020338 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2021.113527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Dengue virus belongs to the class of RNA viruses and subclass of enveloped single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus. It causes dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), or dengue shock syndrome (DSS), where DHF and DSS are life-threatening. Even though dengue is an age-old disease, it is still a mystery and continues to be a global threat. Numerous attempts have been carried out in the past few decades to eradicate the virus through vaccine and antiviral drugs, but still battle continues. In this review, the possible drug targets for discovery and development of potential antiviral drugs against structural proteins of dengue virus, the current development status of the antiviral drugs against dengue around the world, and challenges that need to be addressed to overcome the shortcomings in the process of drug discovery have been discussed.
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- Akshatha H S
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagara, Mysuru, 570015, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagara, Mysuru, 570015, India.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagara, Mysuru, 570015, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagara, Mysuru, 570015, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Sri Shivarathreeshwara Nagara, Mysuru, 570015, India
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Yadav R, Chaudhary JK, Jain N, Chaudhary PK, Khanra S, Dhamija P, Sharma A, Kumar A, Handu S. Role of Structural and Non-Structural Proteins and Therapeutic Targets of SARS-CoV-2 for COVID-19. Cells 2021; 10:cells10040821. [PMID: 33917481 PMCID: PMC8067447 DOI: 10.3390/cells10040821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 73.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2021] [Accepted: 04/01/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Coronavirus belongs to the family of Coronaviridae, comprising single-stranded, positive-sense RNA genome (+ ssRNA) of around 26 to 32 kilobases, and has been known to cause infection to a myriad of mammalian hosts, such as humans, cats, bats, civets, dogs, and camels with varied consequences in terms of death and debilitation. Strikingly, novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), later renamed as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), and found to be the causative agent of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), shows 88% of sequence identity with bat-SL-CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21, 79% with SARS-CoV and 50% with MERS-CoV, respectively. Despite key amino acid residual variability, there is an incredible structural similarity between the receptor binding domain (RBD) of spike protein (S) of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV. During infection, spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 compared to SARS-CoV displays 10-20 times greater affinity for its cognate host cell receptor, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), leading proteolytic cleavage of S protein by transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). Following cellular entry, the ORF-1a and ORF-1ab, located downstream to 5' end of + ssRNA genome, undergo translation, thereby forming two large polyproteins, pp1a and pp1ab. These polyproteins, following protease-induced cleavage and molecular assembly, form functional viral RNA polymerase, also referred to as replicase. Thereafter, uninterrupted orchestrated replication-transcription molecular events lead to the synthesis of multiple nested sets of subgenomic mRNAs (sgRNAs), which are finally translated to several structural and accessory proteins participating in structure formation and various molecular functions of virus, respectively. These multiple structural proteins assemble and encapsulate genomic RNA (gRNA), resulting in numerous viral progenies, which eventually exit the host cell, and spread infection to rest of the body. In this review, we primarily focus on genomic organization, structural and non-structural protein components, and potential prospective molecular targets for development of therapeutic drugs, convalescent plasm therapy, and a myriad of potential vaccines to tackle SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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- Rohitash Yadav
- Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh 249203, India; (P.D.); (S.H.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +91-94-1415-3849
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- Department of Medical Oncology & Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh 249203, India;
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- Molecular Biology & Proteomics Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee 247667, India;
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- Uttaranchal Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dehradun 248007, India;
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- Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh 249203, India; (P.D.); (S.H.)
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- Department of Biochemistry, U.P. Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Veterinary Science University, Mathura 281001, India;
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- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh 249203, India;
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- Department of Pharmacology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh 249203, India; (P.D.); (S.H.)
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Huang H, Zhao J, Wang TY, Zhang S, Zhou Y, Rao Y, Qin C, Liu Y, Chen Y, Xia Z, Feng P. Species-Specific Deamidation of RIG-I Reveals Collaborative Action between Viral and Cellular Deamidases in HSV-1 Lytic Replication. mBio 2021; 12:e00115-21. [PMID: 33785613 PMCID: PMC8092204 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00115-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) is a sensor that recognizes cytosolic double-stranded RNA derived from microbes to induce host immune response. Viruses, such as herpesviruses, deploy diverse mechanisms to derail RIG-I-dependent innate immune defense. In this study, we discovered that mouse RIG-I is intrinsically resistant to deamidation and evasion by herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Comparative studies involving human and mouse RIG-I indicate that N495 of human RIG-I dictates species-specific deamidation by HSV-1 UL37. Remarkably, deamidation of the other site, N549, hinges on that of N495, and it is catalyzed by cellular phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase (PPAT). Specifically, deamidation of N495 enables RIG-I to interact with PPAT, leading to subsequent deamidation of N549. Collaboration between UL37 and PPAT is required for HSV-1 to evade RIG-I-mediated antiviral immune response. This work identifies an immune regulatory role of PPAT in innate host defense and establishes a sequential deamidation event catalyzed by distinct deamidases in immune evasion.IMPORTANCE Herpesviruses are ubiquitous pathogens in human and establish lifelong persistence despite host immunity. The ability to evade host immune response is pivotal for viral persistence and pathogenesis. In this study, we investigated the evasion, mediated by deamidation, of species-specific RIG-I by herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1). Our findings uncovered a collaborative and sequential action between viral deamidase UL37 and a cellular glutamine amidotransferase, phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase (PPAT), to inactivate RIG-I and mute antiviral gene expression. PPAT catalyzes the rate-limiting step of the de novo purine synthesis pathway. This work describes a new function of cellular metabolic enzymes in host defense and viral immune evasion.
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- Huichao Huang
- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Oncology, NHC Key Laboratory of Cancer Proteomics, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Hunan Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases, Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics and Center for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Oncology, NHC Key Laboratory of Cancer Proteomics, XiangYa Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Department of Cell Biology, Hunan Key Laboratory of Animal Models for Human Diseases, Hunan Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics and Center for Medical Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Wang W, Huang Y, Ji Z, Chen G, Zhang Y, Qiao Y, Shi M, Li M, Huang T, Wei T, Mo M, He X, Wei P. The Full Region of N-Terminal in Polymerase of IBDV Plays an Important Role in Viral Replication and Pathogenicity: Either Partial Region or Single Amino Acid V4I Substitution Does Not Completely Lead to the Virus Attenuation to Three-Yellow Chickens. Viruses 2021; 13:v13010107. [PMID: 33466596 PMCID: PMC7828667 DOI: 10.3390/v13010107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2020] [Revised: 12/28/2020] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) has haunted the poultry industry with severe, prolonged immunosuppression of chickens when infected at an early age and can easily lead to other secondary infections. Understanding the pathogenic mechanisms could lead to effective prevention and control of Infectious Bursal Disease (IBD). Evidence suggests that the N-terminal domain of polymerase in segment B plays an important role, but it is not clear which part or residual is crucial for the pathogenicity. Using a reverse genetics technique, a molecular clone (rNN1172) of the parental vvIBDV strain NN1172 was generated, and its pathogenicity was found to be the same as the parental virus. Then, three recombinant chimeric viruses were rescued based on the rNN1172 and substituted with the counterparts in the N-terminal domain of the attenuated vaccine strain B87: the rNN1172-B87VP1a (substituting the full region of the 1–167 aa residuals), the rNN1172-B87VP1a∆4 (substituting the region of the 5–167 aa residuals), and the rNN1172-VP1∆4 (one single aa residual substitution V4I), to better explore the role of the N-terminal domain of polymerase on the viral pathogenicity. Interestingly, all these substitutions played different roles in the viral pathogenicity: the mortality of the rNN1172-B87VP1a-challenged chickens was significantly reduced from 30% to 0%. No obvious lesion was found in the histopathological examination, and the lowest viral genome copy number was also detected in the bursa when compared to the parental and two other recombinant viruses. The mortalities caused by rNN1172-B87VP1a∆4 and rNN1172-B87VP1∆4, respectively, were all reduced to 10% and had a delayed onset of death. Our results also revealed that the pathogenicity of the IBDV was consistent with the viral replication efficiency in vivo (bursae). This study demonstrated that the full region of the N-terminal of polymerase plays an important role in viral replication and pathogenicity, but the substitutions of its partial region or a single residual do not completely lead to the virus attenuation to Three-Yellow chickens, although that significantly reduces its pathogenicity.
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- Weiwei Wang
- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
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- School of Marine Sciences and Biotechnology, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006, China
- Guangxi Key Laboratory Cultivation Base for Polysaccharide Materials and Modifications, Guangxi University for Nationalities, Nanning 530006, China
- Correspondence: (X.H.); (P.W.)
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- Institute for Poultry Science and Health, Guangxi University, Nanning 530005, China; (W.W.); (Y.H.); (Z.J.); (G.C.); (Y.Z.); (Y.Q.); (M.S.); (M.L.); (T.H.); (T.W.); (M.M.)
- Correspondence: (X.H.); (P.W.)
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Liu WJ, Chang YS, Chen PY, Wu SP. F1 ATP synthase β subunit is a putative receptor involved in white spot syndrome virus infection in shrimp by binding with viral envelope proteins VP51B and VP150. Dev Comp Immunol 2021; 114:103810. [PMID: 32750398 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2020.103810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) is highly virulent toward shrimp, and F1 ATP synthase β subunit (ATPsyn-β) has been suggested to be involved in WSSV infection. Therefore, in this study, interactions between Penaeus monodon ATPsyn-β (PmATPsyn-β) and WSSV structural proteins were characterized. Based on the results of yeast two-hybrid, co-immunoprecipitation, and protein pull-down assays, WSSV VP51B and VP150 were identified as being able to interact with PmATPsyn-β. Membrane topology assay results indicated that VP51B and VP150 are envelope proteins with large portions exposed outside the WSSV virion. Cellular localization assay results demonstrated that VP51B and VP150 co-localize with PmATPsyn-β on the membranes of transfected cells. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and competitive ELISA results demonstrated that VP51B and VP150 bound to PmATPsyn-β in a dose-dependent manner, which could be competitively inhibited by the addition of WSSV virions. In vivo neutralization assay results further showed that both recombinant VP51B and VP150 could delay mortality in shrimp challenged with WSSV.
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- Wang-Jing Liu
- Department of Earth and Life Science, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Da-Yeh University, Changhua, Taiwan
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- Department of Earth and Life Science, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Department of Earth and Life Science, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
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Chen YL, Huang CT. Establishment of a two-step purification scheme for tag-free recombinant Taiwan native norovirus P and VP1 proteins. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 2020; 1159:122357. [PMID: 32920339 DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The protruding (P) domain of the major capsid protein VP1 of norovirus (NoV) is the crucial element for immune recognition and host receptor binding. The heterologous P protein expressed by Pichia pastoris self-assembles into P particles. However, tag-free NoV protein purification schemes have rarely been reported due to the low isoelectric point of NoV proteins, which leads to highly competitive binding between the target protein and yeast host cell proteins at alkaline pH. In this study, a two-step purification scheme based on surface histidines and the charge on the NoV GII.4 strain P protein was developed. Using HisTrap and ion exchange chromatography, the P protein was directly purified, with a recovery of 28.1% and purity of 82.1%. Similarly, the NoV capsid protein VP1 was also purified using HisTrap and gel filtration chromatography based on native surface histidines and self-assembly ability, with 20% recovery and over 90% purity. Dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy analyses of the purified NoV P revealed that most of these small P particles were triangle-, square- and ring-shaped, with a diameter of approximately 14 nm, and that the purified NoV VP1 self-assembles into particles with a diameter of approximately 47 nm. Both the purified NoV P and VP1 particles retained human histo-blood group antigen-binding ability, as evidenced by a saliva-binding assay.
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- Yu-Ling Chen
- Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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- Department of Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
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Rajarshi K, Khan R, Singh MK, Ranjan T, Ray S, Ray S. Essential functional molecules associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection: Potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19. Gene 2020; 768:145313. [PMID: 33220345 PMCID: PMC7673215 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.145313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The whole world is still suffering substantially from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Several protein-based molecules that are associated with the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which are essential for its functionality, survival, and pathogenesis have been identified and are considered as potential therapeutic targets. These protein-based molecules are either structural/non-structural components of SARS-CoV-2 or host factors, which play a crucial role in this infection. Developing drug molecules against these essential functional molecules to hinder their regular functioning and associated physiological pathways could be promising for successful clinical management of this novel coronavirus infection. The review aims to highlight the functional molecules that play crucial roles in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. We have emphasized how these potential druggable targets could be beneficial in tackling the COVID-19 crisis.
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- Keshav Rajarshi
- School of Community Science and Technology (SOCSAT), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal 711103, India
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- Motihari College of Engineering, Motihari 845401, India
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Bihar Agriculture University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, India.
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology & Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Department of Biotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi Central University Motihari, 845401, India.
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Schiavina M, Salladini E, Murrali MG, Tria G, Felli IC, Pierattelli R, Longhi S. Ensemble description of the intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain of the Nipah virus P/V protein from combined NMR and SAXS. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19574. [PMID: 33177626 PMCID: PMC7658984 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76522-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Using SAXS and NMR spectroscopy, we herein provide a high-resolution description of the intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain (PNT, aa 1-406) shared by the Nipah virus (NiV) phosphoprotein (P) and V protein, two key players in viral genome replication and in evasion of the host innate immune response, respectively. The use of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy allowed us to assign as much as 91% of the residues of this intrinsically disordered domain whose size constitutes a technical challenge for NMR studies. Chemical shifts and nuclear relaxation measurements provide the picture of a highly flexible protein. The combination of SAXS and NMR information enabled the description of the conformational ensemble of the protein in solution. The present results, beyond providing an overall description of the conformational behavior of this intrinsically disordered region, also constitute an asset for obtaining atomistic information in future interaction studies with viral and/or cellular partners. The present study can thus be regarded as the starting point towards the design of inhibitors that by targeting crucial protein-protein interactions involving PNT might be instrumental to combat this deadly virus.
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- Marco Schiavina
- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Lab. Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), UMR 7257, Aix-Marseille University and CNRS, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Case 932, Marseille, France
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
- Florence Center for Electron Nanoscopy (FloCEN), University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Via Luigi Sacconi 6, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
- Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff", University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3-13, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
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- Lab. Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques (AFMB), UMR 7257, Aix-Marseille University and CNRS, 163 Avenue de Luminy, Case 932, Marseille, France.
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Loew L, Goonawardane N, Ratcliff J, Nguyen D, Simmonds P. Use of a small DNA virus model to investigate mechanisms of CpG dinucleotide-induced attenuation of virus replication. J Gen Virol 2020; 101:1202-1218. [PMID: 32783803 PMCID: PMC7879557 DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.001477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Suppression of the CpG dinucleotide is widespread in RNA viruses infecting vertebrates and plants, and in the genomes of retroviruses and small mammalian DNA viruses. The functional basis for CpG suppression in the latter was investigated through the construction of mutants of the parvovirus, minute virus of mice (MVM) with increased CpG or TpA dinucleotides in the VP gene. CpG-high mutants displayed extraordinary attenuation in A9 cells compared to wild-type MVM (>six logs), while TpA elevation showed no replication effect. Attenuation was independent of Toll-like receptor 9 and STING-mediated DNA recognition pathways and unrelated to effects on translation efficiency. While translation from codon-optimized VP RNA was enhanced in a cell-free assay, MVM containing this sequence was highly attenuated. Further mutational analysis indicated that this arose through its increased numbers of CpG dinucleotides (7→70) and separately from its increased G+C content (42.3→57.4 %), which independently attenuated replication. CpG-high viruses showed impaired NS mRNA expression by qPCR and reduced NS and particularly VP protein expression detected by immunofluorescence and replication in A549 cells, effects reversed in zinc antiviral protein (ZAP) knockout cells, even though nuclear relocalization of VP remained defective. The demonstrated functional basis for CpG suppression in MVM and potentially other small DNA viruses and the observed intolerance of CpGs in coding sequences, even after codon optimization, has implications for the use of small DNA virus vectors in gene therapy and immunization.
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- Lisa Loew
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK
- Present address: Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility, University of Oxford, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK
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- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK
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Kumar D, Chauhan G, Kalra S, Kumar B, Gill MS. A perspective on potential target proteins of COVID-19: Comparison with SARS-CoV for designing new small molecules. Bioorg Chem 2020; 104:104326. [PMID: 33142431 PMCID: PMC7524440 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2020.104326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 09/26/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) epidemic has created an unprecedented medical and economic crisis all over the world. SARS-CoV-2 is found to have more contagious character as compared to MERS-CoV and is spreading in a very fast manner all around the globe. It has affected over 31 million people all over the world till date. This virus shares around 80% of genome similarity with SARS-CoV. In this perspective, we have explored three major targets namely; SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein, RNA dependent RNA polymerase, and 3CL or Mpro Protease for the inhibition of SARS-CoV-2. These targets have attracted attention of the medicinal chemists working on computer-aided drug design in developing new small molecules that might inhibit these targets for combating COVID-19 disease. Moreover, we have compared the similarity of these target proteins with earlier reported coronavirus (SARS-CoV). We have observed that both the coronaviruses share around 80% similarity in their amino acid sequence. The key amino acid interactions which can play a crucial role in designing new small molecule inhibitors against COVID-19 have been reported in this perspective. Authors believe that this study will help the medicinal chemists to understand the key amino acids essential for interactions at the active site of target proteins in SARS-CoV-2, based on their similarity with earlier reported viruses. In this review, we have also described the lead molecules under various clinical trials for their efficacy against COVID-19.
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- Devendra Kumar
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Ghal Kalan, G.T Road, Moga, Punjab 142001, India
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- School of Engineering and Sciences, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur, 64849 Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology (Process Chemistry), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, SAS Nagar, Sector 67, Mohali, Punjab 160062, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ISF College of Pharmacy, Ghal Kalan, G.T Road, Moga, Punjab 142001, India.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology (Process Chemistry), National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, SAS Nagar, Sector 67, Mohali, Punjab 160062, India.
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Alzahrani N, Wu MJ, Shanmugam S, Yi M. Delayed by Design: Role of Suboptimal Signal Peptidase Processing of Viral Structural Protein Precursors in Flaviviridae Virus Assembly. Viruses 2020; 12:v12101090. [PMID: 32993149 PMCID: PMC7601889 DOI: 10.3390/v12101090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 09/04/2020] [Accepted: 09/24/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The Flaviviridae virus family is classified into four different genera, including flavivirus, hepacivirus, pegivirus, and pestivirus, which cause significant morbidity and mortality in humans and other mammals, including ruminants and pigs. These are enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses sharing a similar genome organization and replication scheme with certain unique features that differentiate them. All viruses in this family express a single polyprotein that encodes structural and nonstructural proteins at the N- and C-terminal regions, respectively. In general, the host signal peptidase cleaves the structural protein junction sites, while virus-encoded proteases process the nonstructural polyprotein region. It is known that signal peptidase processing is a rapid, co-translational event. Interestingly, certain signal peptidase processing site(s) in different Flaviviridae viral structural protein precursors display suboptimal cleavage kinetics. This review focuses on the recent progress regarding the Flaviviridae virus genus-specific mechanisms to downregulate signal peptidase-mediated processing at particular viral polyprotein junction sites and the role of delayed processing at these sites in infectious virus particle assembly.
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Freitas N, Enguehard M, Denolly S, Levy C, Neveu G, Lerolle S, Devignot S, Weber F, Bergeron E, Legros V, Cosset FL. The interplays between Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) M segment-encoded accessory proteins and structural proteins promote virus assembly and infectivity. PLoS Pathog 2020; 16:e1008850. [PMID: 32956404 PMCID: PMC7529341 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is a tick-borne orthonairovirus that has become a serious threat to the public health. CCHFV has a single-stranded, tripartite RNA genome composed of L, M, and S segments. Cleavage of the M polyprotein precursor generates the two envelope glycoproteins (GPs) as well as three secreted nonstructural proteins GP38 and GP85 or GP160, representing GP38 only or GP38 linked to a mucin-like protein (MLD), and a double-membrane-spanning protein called NSm. Here, we examined the relevance of each M-segment non-structural proteins in virus assembly, egress and infectivity using a well-established CCHFV virus-like-particle system (tc-VLP). Deletion of MLD protein had no impact on infectivity although it reduced by 60% incorporation of GPs into particles. Additional deletion of GP38 abolished production of infectious tc-VLPs. The loss of infectivity was associated with impaired Gc maturation and exclusion from the Golgi, showing that Gn is not sufficient to target CCHFV GPs to the site of assembly. Consistent with this, efficient complementation was achieved in cells expressing MLD-GP38 in trans with increased levels of preGc to Gc conversion, co-targeting to the Golgi, resulting in particle incorporation and restored infectivity. Contrastingly, a MLD-GP38 variant retained in the ER allowed preGc cleavage but failed to rescue miss-localization or infectivity. NSm deletion, conversely, did not affect trafficking of Gc but interfered with Gc processing, particle formation and secretion. NSm expression affected N-glycosylation of different viral proteins most likely due to increased speed of trafficking through the secretory pathway. This highlights a potential role of NSm in overcoming Golgi retention and facilitating CCHFV egress. Thus, deletions of GP38 or NSm demonstrate their important role on CCHFV particle production and infectivity. GP85 is an essential viral factor for preGc cleavage, trafficking and Gc incorporation into particles, whereas NSm protein is involved in CCHFV assembly and virion secretion. Orthonairoviruses, like the lethal Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), encode secreted glycoproteins, such as GP38, in addition to virion envelope glycoproteins (Gn and Gc) that are processed by internal cleavage of the viral M segment encoded polyprotein. CCHFV MLD-GP38 proteins (GP160/GP85) also include an N-terminal domain encompassing a mucin-like protein that is released from GP38 by Furin. The protective effect of non-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies targeting GP38 against lethal CCHFV challenge previously highlighted the importance of GP38 in CCHFV replication. CCHFV also encodes a double-membrane-spanning protein (NSm) of unknown function, located between the Gn and Gc on the polyprotein. To investigate the roles of these so-called accessory proteins encoded by the CCHFV M-segment in virus formation and infectivity, we generated several M-segment deletion mutants and tested them in a CCHFV transcription-entry-competent virus-like particle (tc-VLP) system. Here, we demonstrate that GP38 is crucial for Gc biogenesis, interaction with Gn and trafficking to the Golgi, and that its deletion abrogates formation of infectious particles. We also show that NSm increases the rate of protein trafficking through the secretory pathway with altered N-glycosylation profiles that are advantageous for efficient virus release. These data advanced our understanding of GP38 and NSm roles and CCHFV-host interactions.
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- Natalia Freitas
- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
- * E-mail: (NF); (FLC)
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
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- Institute for Virology, FB10-Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen, Germany
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- Institute for Virology, FB10-Veterinary Medicine, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen, Germany
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- Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
- Université de Lyon, VetAgro Sup, Marcy-l'Étoile, France
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- CIRI–Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inserm, U1111, CNRS, UMR5308, ENS Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, Lyon, France
- * E-mail: (NF); (FLC)
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Lyu C, Li WD, Wang SW, Peng JM, Yang YB, Tian ZJ, Cai XH. Host BAG3 Is Degraded by Pseudorabies Virus pUL56 C-Terminal 181L- 185L and Plays a Negative Regulation Role during Viral Lytic Infection. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21093148. [PMID: 32365661 PMCID: PMC7247713 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21093148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 04/23/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Bcl2-associated athanogene (BAG) 3, which is a chaperone-mediated selective autophagy protein, plays a pivotal role in modulating the life cycle of a wide variety of viruses. Both positive and negative modulations of viruses by BAG3 were reported. However, the effects of BAG3 on pseudorabies virus (PRV) remain unknown. To investigate whether BAG3 could modulate the PRV life cycle during a lytic infection, we first identified PRV protein UL56 (pUL56) as a novel BAG3 interactor by co-immunoprecipitation and co-localization analyses. The overexpression of pUL56 induced a significant degradation of BAG3 at protein level via the lysosome pathway. The C-terminal mutations of 181L/A, 185L/A, or 181L/A-185L/A in pUL56 resulted in a deficiency in pUL56-induced BAG3 degradation. In addition, the pUL56 C-terminal mutants that lost Golgi retention abrogated pUL56-induced BAG3 degradation, which indicates a Golgi retention-dependent manner. Strikingly, BAG3 was not observed to be degraded in either wild-type or UL56-deleted PRV infected cells as compared to mock infected ones, whereas the additional two adjacent BAG3 cleaved products were found in the infected cells in a species-specific manner. Overexpression of BAG3 significantly suppressed PRV proliferation, while knockdown of BAG3 resulted in increased viral yields in HEK293T cells. Thus, these data indicated a negative regulation role of BAG3 during PRV lytic infection. Collectively, our findings revealed a novel molecular mechanism on host protein degradation induced by PRV pUL56. Moreover, we identified BAG3 as a host restricted protein during PRV lytic infection in cells.
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Forgione RE, Di Carluccio C, Kubota M, Manabe Y, Fukase K, Molinaro A, Hashiguchi T, Marchetti R, Silipo A. Structural basis for Glycan-receptor binding by mumps virus hemagglutinin-neuraminidase. Sci Rep 2020; 10:1589. [PMID: 32005959 PMCID: PMC6994497 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58559-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Mumps virus is one of the main cause of respiratory illnesses in humans, especially children. Among the viral surface glycoproteins, the hemagglutinin - neuraminidase, MuV-HN, plays key roles in virus entry into host cells and infectivity, thus representing an ideal target for the design of novel inhibitors. Here we report the detailed analysis of the molecular recognition of host cell surface sialylated glycans by the viral glycoprotein MuV-HN. By a combined use of NMR, docking, molecular modelling and CORCEMA-ST, the structural features of sialoglycans/MuV-HN complexes were revealed. Evidence for a different enzyme activity toward longer and complex substrates compared to unbranched ligands was also examined by an accurate NMR kinetic analysis. Our results provide the basis for the structure-based design of effective drugs against mumps-induced diseases.
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- Rosa Ester Forgione
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126, Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Core for Medicine and Science Collaborative Research and Education, Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Core for Medicine and Science Collaborative Research and Education, Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126, Napoli, Italy
- Core for Medicine and Science Collaborative Research and Education, Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126, Napoli, Italy.
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Complesso Universitario Monte Sant'Angelo, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cintia 4, I-80126, Napoli, Italy.
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Stults AM, Smith GA. The Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Deamidase Enhances Propagation but Is Dispensable for Retrograde Axonal Transport into the Nervous System. J Virol 2019; 93:e01172-19. [PMID: 31462572 PMCID: PMC6819922 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.01172-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Upon replication in mucosal epithelia and transmission to nerve endings, capsids of herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) travel retrogradely within axons to peripheral ganglia, where life-long latent infections are established. A capsid-bound tegument protein, pUL37, is an essential effector of retrograde axonal transport and also houses a deamidase activity that antagonizes innate immune signaling. In this report, we examined whether the deamidase of HSV-1 pUL37 contributes to the neuroinvasive retrograde axonal transport mechanism. We conclude that neuroinvasion is enhanced by the deamidase, but the critical contribution of pUL37 to retrograde axonal transport functions independently of this activity.IMPORTANCE Herpes simplex virus 1 invades the nervous system by entering nerve endings and sustaining long-distance retrograde axonal transport to reach neuronal nuclei in ganglia of the peripheral nervous system. The incoming viral particle carries a deamidase activity on its surface that antagonizes antiviral responses. We examined the contribution of the deamidase to the hallmark neuroinvasive property of this virus.
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- Austin M Stults
- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Satterfield BA, Borisevich V, Foster SL, Rodriguez SE, Cross RW, Fenton KA, Agans KN, Basler CF, Geisbert TW, Mire CE. Antagonism of STAT1 by Nipah virus P gene products modulates disease course but not lethal outcome in the ferret model. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16710. [PMID: 31723221 PMCID: PMC6853903 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-53037-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/22/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Nipah virus (NiV) is a pathogenic paramyxovirus and zoononis with very high human fatality rates. Previous protein over-expression studies have shown that various mutations to the common N-terminal STAT1-binding motif of the NiV P, V, and W proteins affected the STAT1-binding ability of these proteins thus interfering with he JAK/STAT pathway and reducing their ability to inhibit type-I IFN signaling, but due to differing techniques it was unclear which amino acids were most important in this interaction or what impact this had on pathogenesis in vivo. We compared all previously described mutations in parallel and found the amino acid mutation Y116E demonstrated the greatest reduction in binding to STAT1 and the greatest reduction in interferon antagonism. A similar reduction in binding and activity was seen for a deletion of twenty amino acids constituting the described STAT1-binding domain. To investigate the contribution of this STAT1-binding motif in NiV-mediated disease, we produced rNiVs with complete deletion of the STAT1-binding motif or the Y116E mutation for ferret challenge studies (rNiVM-STAT1blind). Despite the reduced IFN inhibitory function, ferrets challenged with these rNiVM-STAT1blind mutants had a lethal, albeit altered, NiV-mediated disease course. These data, together with our previously published data, suggest that the major role of NiV P, V, and W in NiV-mediated disease in the ferret model are likely to be in the inhibition of viral recognition/innate immune signaling induction with a minor role for inhibition of IFN signaling.
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- Benjamin A Satterfield
- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Mayo Clinic, Department of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
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Badillo-Vargas IE, Chen Y, Martin KM, Rotenberg D, Whitfield AE. Discovery of Novel Thrips Vector Proteins That Bind to the Viral Attachment Protein of the Plant Bunyavirus Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus. J Virol 2019; 93:e00699-19. [PMID: 31413126 PMCID: PMC6803271 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00699-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The plant-pathogenic virus tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) encodes a structural glycoprotein (GN) that, like with other bunyavirus/vector interactions, serves a role in viral attachment and possibly in entry into arthropod vector host cells. It is well documented that Frankliniella occidentalis is one of nine competent thrips vectors of TSWV transmission to plant hosts. However, the insect molecules that interact with viral proteins, such as GN, during infection and dissemination in thrips vector tissues are unknown. The goals of this project were to identify TSWV-interacting proteins (TIPs) that interact directly with TSWV GN and to localize the expression of these proteins in relation to virus in thrips tissues of principal importance along the route of dissemination. We report here the identification of six TIPs from first-instar larvae (L1), the most acquisition-efficient developmental stage of the thrips vector. Sequence analyses of these TIPs revealed homology to proteins associated with the infection cycle of other vector-borne viruses. Immunolocalization of the TIPs in L1 revealed robust expression in the midgut and salivary glands of F. occidentalis, the tissues most important during virus infection, replication, and plant inoculation. The TIPs and GN interactions were validated using protein-protein interaction assays. Two of the thrips proteins, endocuticle structural glycoprotein and cyclophilin, were found to be consistent interactors with GN These newly discovered thrips protein-GN interactions are important for a better understanding of the transmission mechanism of persistent propagative plant viruses by their vectors, as well as for developing new strategies of insect pest management and virus resistance in plants.IMPORTANCE Thrips-transmitted viruses cause devastating losses to numerous food crops worldwide. For negative-sense RNA viruses that infect plants, the arthropod serves as a host as well by supporting virus replication in specific tissues and organs of the vector. The goal of this work was to identify thrips proteins that bind directly to the viral attachment protein and thus may play a role in the infection cycle in the insect. Using the model plant bunyavirus tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV), and the most efficient thrips vector, we identified and validated six TSWV-interacting proteins from Frankliniella occidentalis first-instar larvae. Two proteins, an endocuticle structural glycoprotein and cyclophilin, were able to interact directly with the TSWV attachment protein, GN, in insect cells. The TSWV GN-interacting proteins provide new targets for disrupting the viral disease cycle in the arthropod vector and could be putative determinants of vector competence.
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Ignatiou A, Brasilès S, El Sadek Fadel M, Bürger J, Mielke T, Topf M, Tavares P, Orlova EV. Structural transitions during the scaffolding-driven assembly of a viral capsid. Nat Commun 2019; 10:4840. [PMID: 31649265 PMCID: PMC6813328 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12790-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/25/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Assembly of tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses starts with formation of procapsids (virion precursors without DNA). Scaffolding proteins (SP) drive assembly by chaperoning the major capsid protein (MCP) to build an icosahedral lattice. Here we report near-atomic resolution cryo-EM structures of the bacteriophage SPP1 procapsid, the intermediate expanded procapsid with partially released SPs, and the mature capsid with DNA. In the intermediate state, SPs are bound only to MCP pentons and to adjacent subunits from hexons. SP departure results in the expanded state associated with unfolding of the MCP N-terminus and straightening of E-loops. The newly formed extensive inter-capsomere bonding appears to compensate for release of SPs that clasp MCP capsomeres together. Subsequent DNA packaging instigates bending of MCP A domain loops outwards, closing the hexons central opening and creating the capsid auxiliary protein binding interface. These findings provide a molecular basis for the sequential structural rearrangements during viral capsid maturation.
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- Athanasios Ignatiou
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Department of Virology, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Virology, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy Group, Ihnestraße 63-73, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- Medizinische Physik und Biophysik, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charitéplatz 1, 10117, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Microscopy and Cryo-Electron Microscopy Group, Ihnestraße 63-73, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Department of Virology, Institut de Biologie Intégrative de la Cellule (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Ye X, Gui X, Freed DC, Ku Z, Li L, Chen Y, Xiong W, Fan X, Su H, He X, Rustandi RR, Loughney JW, Ma N, Espeseth AS, Liu J, Zhu H, Wang D, Zhang N, Fu TM, An Z. Identification of adipocyte plasma membrane-associated protein as a novel modulator of human cytomegalovirus infection. PLoS Pathog 2019; 15:e1007914. [PMID: 31356650 PMCID: PMC6687193 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007914] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2019] [Revised: 08/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a ubiquitous pathogen that can cause disability in newborns and serious clinical diseases in immunocompromised patients. HCMV has a large genome with enormous coding potential; its viral particles are equipped with complicated glycoprotein complexes and can infect a wide range of human cells. Although multiple host cellular receptors interacting with viral glycoproteins have been reported, the mechanism of HCMV infection remains a mystery. Here we report identification of adipocyte plasma membrane-associated protein (APMAP) as a novel modulator active in the early stage of HCMV infection. APMAP is necessary for HCMV infection in both epithelial cells and fibroblasts; knockdown of APMAP expression significantly reduced HCMV infection of these cells. Interestingly, ectopic expression of human APMAP in cells refractory to HCMV infection, such as canine MDCK and murine NIH/3T3 cells, promoted HCMV infection. Furthermore, reduction in viral immediate early (IE) gene transcription at 6 h post infection and delayed nucleus translocation of tegument delivered pp65 at 4 h post infection were detected in APMAP-deficient cells but not in the wildtype cells. These results suggest that APMAP plays a role in the early stage of HCMV infection. Results from biochemical studies of APMAP and HCMV proteins suggest that APMAP could participate in HCMV infection through interaction with gH/gL containing glycoprotein complexes at low pH and mediate nucleus translocation of tegument pp65. Taken together, our results suggest that APMAP functions as a modulator promoting HCMV infection in multiple cell types and is an important player in the complex HCMV infection mechanism.
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- Xiaohua Ye
- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
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- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
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- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
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- Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China
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- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
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- Rutgers Medical School of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, United States of America
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- Rutgers Medical School of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, United States of America
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- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (NZ); (TMF); (ZN)
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
- MRL, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, United States of America
- * E-mail: (NZ); (TMF); (ZN)
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- Texas Therapeutics Institute, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (NZ); (TMF); (ZN)
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Hernández Durán A, Greco TM, Vollmer B, Cristea IM, Grünewald K, Topf M. Protein interactions and consensus clustering analysis uncover insights into herpesvirus virion structure and function relationships. PLoS Biol 2019; 17:e3000316. [PMID: 31199794 PMCID: PMC6594648 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2019] [Accepted: 05/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Infections with human herpesviruses are ubiquitous and a public health concern worldwide. Current treatments reduce the severity of some symptoms associated to herpetic infections but neither remove the viral reservoir from the infected host nor protect from the recurrent symptom outbreaks that characterise herpetic infections. The difficulty in therapeutically tackling these viral systems stems in part from their remarkably large proteomes and the complex networks of physical and functional associations that they tailor. This study presents our efforts to unravel the complexity of the interactome of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), the prototypical herpesvirus species. Inspired by our previous work, we present an improved and more integrative computational pipeline for the protein–protein interaction (PPI) network reconstruction in HSV1, together with a newly developed consensus clustering framework, which allowed us to extend the analysis beyond binary physical interactions and revealed a system-level layout of higher-order functional associations in the virion proteome. Additionally, the analysis provided new functional annotation for the currently undercharacterised protein pUS10. In-depth bioinformatics sequence analysis unravelled structural features in pUS10 reminiscent of those observed in some capsid-associated proteins in tailed bacteriophages, with which herpesviruses are believed to share a common ancestry. Using immunoaffinity purification (IP)–mass spectrometry (MS), we obtained additional support for our bioinformatically predicted interaction between pUS10 and the inner tegument protein pUL37, which binds cytosolic capsids, contributing to initial tegumentation and eventually virion maturation. In summary, this study unveils new, to our knowledge, insights at both the system and molecular levels that can help us better understand the complexity behind herpesvirus infections. Consensus clustering of protein-protein interaction networks provides insights into the assembly mechanism of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) virions and structure-function relationships underlying herpesvirus infection.
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- Anna Hernández Durán
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Structural Cell Biology of Viruses, Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibnitz Institute of Experimental Virology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Department of Structural Cell Biology of Viruses, Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibnitz Institute of Experimental Virology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- * E-mail: (MT); (KG)
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (MT); (KG)
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Kristensen T, Belsham GJ. Identification of a short, highly conserved, motif required for picornavirus capsid precursor processing at distal sites. PLoS Pathog 2019; 15:e1007509. [PMID: 30657784 PMCID: PMC6338358 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Many picornaviruses cause important diseases in humans and other animals including poliovirus, rhinoviruses (causing the common cold) and foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV). These small, non-enveloped viruses comprise a positive-stranded RNA genome (ca. 7-9 kb) enclosed within a protein shell composed of 60 copies of three or four different capsid proteins. For the aphthoviruses (e.g. FMDV) and cardioviruses, the capsid precursor, P1-2A, is cleaved by the 3C protease (3Cpro) to generate VP0, VP3 and VP1 plus 2A. For enteroviruses, e.g. poliovirus, the capsid precursor is P1 alone, which is cleaved by the 3CD protease to generate just VP0, VP3 and VP1. The sequences required for correct processing of the FMDV capsid protein precursor in mammalian cells were analyzed. Truncation of the P1-2A precursor from its C-terminus showed that loss of the 2A peptide (18 residues long) and 27 residues from the C-terminus of VP1 (211 residues long) resulted in a precursor that cannot be processed by 3Cpro although it still contained two unmodified internal cleavage sites (VP0/VP3 and VP3/VP1 junctions). Furthermore, introduction of small deletions within P1-2A identified residues 185-190 within VP1 as being required for 3Cpro-mediated processing and for optimal accumulation of the precursor. Within this C-terminal region of VP1, five of these residues (YCPRP), are very highly conserved in all FMDVs and are also conserved amongst other picornaviruses. Mutant FMDV P1-2A precursors with single amino acid substitutions within this motif were highly resistant to cleavage at internal junctions. Such substitutions also abrogated virus infectivity. These results can explain earlier observations that loss of the C-terminus (including the conserved motif) from the poliovirus capsid precursor conferred resistance to processing. Thus, this motif seems essential for maintaining the correct structure of picornavirus capsid precursors prior to processing and subsequent capsid assembly; it may represent a site that interacts with cellular chaperones.
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- Thea Kristensen
- DTU National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lindholm, Kalvehave, Denmark
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- DTU National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Lindholm, Kalvehave, Denmark
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Mertens J, Bondia P, Allende-Ballestero C, Carrascosa JL, Flors C, Castón JR. Mechanics of Virus-like Particles Labeled with Green Fluorescent Protein. Biophys J 2018; 115:1561-1568. [PMID: 30249401 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.08.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Nanoindentation with an atomic force microscope was used to investigate the mechanical properties of virus-like particles (VLPs) derived from the avian pathogen infectious bursal disease virus, in which the major capsid protein was modified by fusion with enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). These VLPs assemble as ∼70-nm-diameter T = 13 icosahedral capsids with large cargo space. The effect of the insertion of heterologous proteins in the capsid was characterized in the elastic regime, revealing that EGFP-labeled chimeric VLPs are more rigid than unmodified VLPs. In addition, nanoindentation measurements beyond the elastic regime allowed the determination of brittleness and rupture force limit. EGFP incorporation results in a complex shape of the indentation curve and lower critical indentation depth of the capsid, rendering more brittle particles as compared to unlabeled VLPs. These observations suggest the presence of a complex and more constrained network of interactions between EGFP and the capsid inner shell. These results highlight the effect of fluorescent protein insertion on the mechanical properties of these capsids. Because the physical properties of the viral capsid are connected to viral infectivity and VLP transport and disassembly, our results are relevant to design improved labeling strategies for fluorescence tracking in living cells.
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- Johann Mertens
- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA Nanoscience), Madrid, Spain
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- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA Nanoscience), Madrid, Spain; Nanobiotechnology Associated Unit CNB-CSIC-IMDEA, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Structure of Macromolecules, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain; Nanobiotechnology Associated Unit CNB-CSIC-IMDEA, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Nanoscience (IMDEA Nanoscience), Madrid, Spain; Nanobiotechnology Associated Unit CNB-CSIC-IMDEA, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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- Department of Structure of Macromolecules, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain; Nanobiotechnology Associated Unit CNB-CSIC-IMDEA, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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Zhu J, Miao Q, Tang J, Wang X, Dong D, Liu T, Qi R, Yang Z, Liu G. Nucleolin mediates the internalization of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus through clathrin-dependent endocytosis. PLoS Pathog 2018; 14:e1007383. [PMID: 30339712 PMCID: PMC6209375 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1007383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) is an important member of the Caliciviridae family and a highly lethal pathogen in rabbits. Although the cell receptor of RHDV has been identified, the mechanism underlying RHDV internalization remains unknown. In this study, the entry and post-internalization of RHDV into host cells were investigated using several biochemical inhibitors and RNA interference. Our data demonstrate that rabbit nucleolin (NCL) plays a key role in RHDV internalization. Further study revealed that NCL specifically interacts with the RHDV capsid protein (VP60) through its N-terminal residues (aa 285-318), and the exact position of the VP60 protein for the interaction with NCL is located in a highly conserved region (472Asp-Val-Asn474; DVN motif). Following competitive blocking of the interaction between NCL and VP60 with an artificial DVN peptide (RRTGDVNAAAGSTNGTQ), the internalization efficiency of the virus was markedly reduced. Moreover, NCL also interacts with the C-terminal residues of clathrin light chain A, which is an important component in clathrin-dependent endocytosis. In addition, the results of animal experiments also demonstrated that artificial DVN peptides protected most rabbits from RHDV infection. These findings demonstrate that NCL is involved in RHDV internalization through clathrin-dependent endocytosis.
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- Jie Zhu
- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
- Laboratory of Virology, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China
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- Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, P. R. China
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Mathur M, Das T, Chen JL, Chattopadhyay D, Banerjee AK. Display of disparate transcription phenotype by the phosphorylation negative P protein mutants of vesicular stomatitis virus, Indiana serotype, expressed in E. coli and eucaryotic cells. Gene Expr 2018; 6:275-86. [PMID: 9368099 PMCID: PMC6148285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The phosphoprotein (P) of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a subunit of the RNA polymerase (L) that transcribes the negative strand genome RNA into mRNAs both in vitro and in vivo. We have recently shown that the P protein of VSV, New Jersey serotype (PNJ), expressed in E. coli, is biologically inactive unless phosphorylated at specific serine residues by cellular casein kinase II (CKII). In the present work, we are studying the role of phosphorylation in the activation of the P protein of Indiana serotype (PIND), which is highly nonhomologous in amino acid sequence yet structurally similar to its New Jersey counterpart. Despite the fact that E. coli-expressed PIND required phosphorylation by CKII for activation, the phosphorylation negative P protein mutants generated by altering the phosphate acceptors S and T to alanine, surprisingly, showed transcription activity similar to wild-type in vitro. Alteration of S and T residues to phenylalanine, similarly, supported substantial transcription activity (approx. 60% of wild-type), whereas substitution with arginine residue abrogated transcription (approx. 5% of wild-type). In contrast, the same mutants, when expressed in eucaryotic cells, exhibited greatly reduced transcription activity in vitro. This disparate display of transcription phenotype by the PIND mutants expressed in bacteria and eucaryotic cells suggests that these mutants are unique in assuming different secondary structure or conformation when synthesized in two different cellular milieu. The findings that, unless phosphorylated by CKII, the bacterially expressed unphosphorylated (P0) form of PIND, as well as the phosphorylation negative mutants expressed in eucaryotic cells, demonstrates transcription negative phenotype indicate that, like PNJ, phosphorylation of PIND is essential for its activity.
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- Manjula Mathur
- Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NC20, Cleveland, OH 44195
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NC20, Cleveland, OH 44195
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NC20, Cleveland, OH 44195
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NC20, Cleveland, OH 44195
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, NC20, Cleveland, OH 44195
- Address correspondence to Amiya K. Banerjee. Tel: (216) 444-0625; Fax: (216) 444-0512; E-mail:
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Zhang J, Zhao J, Xu S, Li J, He S, Zeng Y, Xie L, Xie N, Liu T, Lee K, Seo GJ, Chen L, Stabell AC, Xia Z, Sawyer SL, Jung J, Huang C, Feng P. Species-Specific Deamidation of cGAS by Herpes Simplex Virus UL37 Protein Facilitates Viral Replication. Cell Host Microbe 2018; 24:234-248.e5. [PMID: 30092200 PMCID: PMC6094942 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Revised: 05/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) establishes infections in humans and mice, but some non-human primates exhibit resistance via unknown mechanisms. Innate immune recognition pathways are highly conserved but are pivotal in determining susceptibility to DNA virus infections. We report that variation of a single amino acid residue in the innate immune sensor cGAS determines species-specific inactivation by HSV-1. The HSV-1 UL37 tegument protein deamidates human and mouse cGAS. Deamidation impairs the ability of cGAS to catalyze cGAMP synthesis, which activates innate immunity. HSV-1 with deamidase-deficient UL37 promotes robust antiviral responses and is attenuated in mice in a cGAS- and STING-dependent manner. Mutational analyses identified a single asparagine in human and mouse cGAS that is not conserved in many non-human primates. This residue underpins UL37-mediated cGAS deamidation and species permissiveness of HSV-1. Thus, HSV-1 mediates cGAS deamidation for immune evasion and exploits species sequence variation to disarm host defenses.
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- Junjie Zhang
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; School of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Youjiang Medical University for Nationalities, Baise, Guangxi, China
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- The Fourth West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
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- BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China
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- BioFrontiers Institute and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80303, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Forensic Medicine, Sichuan University and Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA.
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Chang CK, Wu SR, Chen YC, Lee KJ, Chung NH, Lu YJ, Yu SL, Liu CC, Chow YH. Mutations in VP1 and 5'-UTR affect enterovirus 71 virulence. Sci Rep 2018; 8:6688. [PMID: 29703921 PMCID: PMC5923339 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25091-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a major cause of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). The current EV71 propagating in Vero (EV-V) or sub-passaged in RD (EV-R) cells was used as a pathogen. Interestingly, EV-R exhibited differential virulence; challenging human scavenger receptor class B2-expressing (hSCARB2-Tg) mice with EV71 revealed that EV-V was more virulent than EV-R: 100% of mice that received lethal amounts of EV-V died, while all the mice that received EV-R survived. Severe pathogenesis correlated with viral burdens and proinflammatory cytokine levels were observed in EV-V-challenged mice, but controversy in EV-R-challenged mice. Consensus sequence analysis revealed EV-R rapidly acquired complete mutations at E145G and S241L and partial mutations at V146I of VP1, and acquired a T to C substitution at nucleotide 494 of the 5'-UTR. EV-R exhibited higher binding affinity for another EV71 receptor, human P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (hPSGL-1), than EV-V. Both EV71s exhibited no significant difference in binding to hSCARB2. The molecular modelling indicate that these mutations might influence EV71 engagement with PSGL-1 and in vivo virulence.
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- Ching-Kun Chang
- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Life Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, 114, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oral Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
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- Institute of Oral Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
- Graduate Program of Biotechnology in Medicine, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Life Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, 114, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan
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- National Institute of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, 350, Taiwan.
- Graduate Institute of Life Science, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, 114, Taiwan.
- Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan.
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Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) cause diseases ranging from benign warts to invasive cancers. HPVs infect epithelial cells and their replication cycle is tightly linked with the differentiation process of the infected keratinocyte. The normal replication cycle involves an early and a late phase. The early phase encompasses viral entry and initial genome replication, stimulation of cell division and inhibition of apoptosis in the infected cell. Late events in the HPV life cycle include viral genome amplification, virion formation, and release into the environment from the surface of the epithelium. The main proteins required at the late stage of infection for viral genome amplification include E1, E2, E4 and E5. The late proteins L1 and L2 are structural proteins that form the viral capsid. Regulation of these late events involves both cellular and viral proteins. The late viral mRNAs are expressed from a specific late promoter but final late mRNA levels in the infected cell are controlled by splicing, polyadenylation, nuclear export and RNA stability. Viral late protein expression is also controlled at the level of translation. This review will discuss current knowledge of how HPV late gene expression is regulated.
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- Sheila V Graham
- MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Garscube Estate, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.
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El Bilali N, Duron J, Gingras D, Lippé R. Quantitative Evaluation of Protein Heterogeneity within Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Particles. J Virol 2017; 91:e00320-17. [PMID: 28275191 PMCID: PMC5411592 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00320-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2017] [Accepted: 03/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Several virulence genes have been identified thus far in the herpes simplex virus 1 genome. It is also generally accepted that protein heterogeneity among virions further impacts viral fitness. However, linking this variability directly with infectivity has been challenging at the individual viral particle level. To address this issue, we resorted to flow cytometry (flow virometry), a powerful approach we recently employed to analyze individual viral particles, to identify which tegument proteins vary and directly address if such variability is biologically relevant. We found that the stoichiometry of the UL37, ICP0, and VP11/12 tegument proteins in virions is more stable than the VP16 and VP22 tegument proteins, which varied significantly among viral particles. Most interestingly, viruses sorted for their high VP16 or VP22 content yielded modest but reproducible increases in infectivity compared to their corresponding counterparts containing low VP16 or VP22 content. These findings were corroborated for VP16 in short interfering RNA experiments but proved intriguingly more complex for VP22. An analysis by quantitative Western blotting revealed substantial alterations of virion composition upon manipulation of individual tegument proteins and suggests that VP22 protein levels acted indirectly on viral fitness. These findings reaffirm the interdependence of the virion components and corroborate that viral fitness is influenced not only by the genome of viruses but also by the stoichiometry of proteins within each virion.IMPORTANCE The ability of viruses to spread in animals has been mapped to several viral genes, but other factors are clearly involved, including virion heterogeneity. To directly probe whether the latter influences viral fitness, we analyzed the protein content of individual herpes simplex virus 1 particles using an innovative flow cytometry approach. The data confirm that some viral proteins are incorporated in more controlled amounts, while others vary substantially. Interestingly, this correlates with the VP16 trans-activating viral protein and indirectly with VP22, a second virion component whose modulation profoundly alters virion composition. This reaffirms that not only the presence but also the amount of specific tegument proteins is an important determinant of viral fitness.
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- Nabil El Bilali
- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Su L, Xu C, Cheng C, Lei C, Sun X. MTase Domain of Dendrolimus punctatus cypovirus VP3 Mediates Virion Attachment and Interacts with Host ALP Protein. Viruses 2017; 9:v9040066. [PMID: 28368302 PMCID: PMC5408672 DOI: 10.3390/v9040066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2017] [Revised: 03/21/2017] [Accepted: 03/23/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Dendrolimus punctatus cypovirus (DpCPV) is an important pathogen of D. punctatus, but little is known about the mechanisms of DpCPV infection. Here, we investigated the effects of VP3, VP4 and VP5 structural proteins on the viral invasion. Both the C-terminal of VP3 (methyltransferase (MTase) domain) and VP4 (A-spike) bound to Spodoptera exigua midgut brush border membrane vesicles (BBMVs) in a dose-dependent manner, and the binding was inhibited by purified DpCPV virions. Importantly, anti-MTase and anti-VP4 antibodies inhibited viral binding to S. exigua BBMVs. Using far-Western blots, a 65 kDa protein in Bombyx mori BBMVs, identified as alkaline phosphatase protein (BmALP) by mass spectrometry, specifically interacted with DpCPV MTase. The interaction between MTase and BmALP was verified by co-immunoprecipitation in vitro. Pretreatment of B. mori BBMVs with an anti-ALP antibody or incubation of DpCPV virions with prokaryotically expressed BmALP reduced viral attachment. Additionally, BmALP inhibited DpCPV infection in S. exigua larvae. Our data provide evidence that the MTase domain and A-spike function as viral attachment proteins during the DpCPV infection process, and ALP is the ligand that interacts with DpCPV via the MTase domain. These results augment our understanding of the mechanisms used by cypoviruses to enter their hosts.
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- Lan Su
- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
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- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
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- Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China.
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Hamza H, Abd-Elshafy DN, Fayed SA, Bahgat MM, El-Esnawy NA, Abdel-Mobdy E. Detection and characterization of hepatitis A virus circulating in Egypt. Arch Virol 2017; 162:1921-1931. [PMID: 28303345 DOI: 10.1007/s00705-017-3294-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hepatitis A virus (HAV) still poses a considerable problem worldwide. In the current study, hepatitis A virus was recovered from wastewater samples collected from three wastewater treatment plants over one year. Using RT-PCR, HAV was detected in 43 out of 68 samples (63.2%) representing both inlet and outlet. Eleven positive samples were subjected to sequencing targeting the VP1-2A junction region. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that all samples belonged to subgenotype IB with few substitutions at the amino acid level. The complete sequence of one isolate (HAV/Egy/BI-11/2015) showed that the similarity at the amino acid level was not reflected at the nucleotide level. However, the deduced amino acid sequence derived from the complete nucleotide sequence showed distinct substitutions in the 2B, 2C, and 3A regions. Recombination analysis revealed a recombination event between X75215 (subgenotype IA) and AF268396 (subgenotype IB) involving a portion of the 2B nonstructural protein coding region (nucleotides 3757-3868) assuming the herein characterized sequence an actual recombinant. Despite the role of recombination in picornaviruses evolution, its involvement in HAV evolution has rarely been reported, and this may be due to the limited available complete HAV sequences. To our knowledge, this represents the first characterized complete sequence of an Egyptian isolate and the described recombination event provides an important update on the circulating HAV strains in Egypt.
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- Hazem Hamza
- Environmental Virology Laboratory, Department of Water Pollution Research, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt.
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- Environmental Virology Laboratory, Department of Water Pollution Research, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Immune and Biomarkers for Infection Laboratory, The Center of Excellence for Advanced Sciences, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Environmental Virology Laboratory, Department of Water Pollution Research, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Bejerman N, Mann KS, Dietzgen RG. Alfalfa dwarf cytorhabdovirus P protein is a local and systemic RNA silencing supressor which inhibits programmed RISC activity and prevents transitive amplification of RNA silencing. Virus Res 2016; 224:19-28. [PMID: 27543392 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2016.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/14/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Plants employ RNA silencing as an innate defense mechanism against viruses. As a counter-defense, plant viruses have evolved to express RNA silencing suppressor proteins (RSS), which target one or more steps of the silencing pathway. In this study, we show that the phosphoprotein (P) encoded by the negative-sense RNA virus alfalfa dwarf virus (ADV), a species of the genus Cytorhabdovirus, family Rhabdoviridae, is a suppressor of RNA silencing. ADV P has a relatively weak local RSS activity, and does not prevent siRNA accumulation. On the other hand, ADV P strongly suppresses systemic RNA silencing, but does not interfere with the short-distance spread of silencing, which is consistent with its lack of inhibition of siRNA accumulation. The mechanism of suppression appears to involve ADV P binding to RNA-induced silencing complex proteins AGO1 and AGO4 as shown in protein-protein interaction assays when ectopically expressed. In planta, we demonstrate that ADV P likely functions by inhibiting miRNA-guided AGO1 cleavage and prevents transitive amplification by repressing the production of secondary siRNAs. As recently described for lettuce necrotic yellows cytorhabdovirus P, but in contrast to other viral RSS known to disrupt AGO activity, ADV P sequence does not contain any recognizable GW/WG or F-box motifs, which suggests that cytorhabdovirus P proteins may use alternative motifs to bind to AGO proteins.
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- Nicolás Bejerman
- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
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- Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
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