scholarly journals Insights into the Functions of eIF4E-Binding Motif of VPg in Potato Virus A Infection

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreya Saha ◽  
Kristiina Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Potato Virus ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Rna Silencing ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Renilla Luciferase ◽  
Testable Hypothesis ◽  
Binding Motif ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Potato Virus A ◽  
Rna Stabilization

The interaction between the viral protein genome-linked (VPg) and eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) or eIF(iso)4E of the host plays a crucial role in potyvirus infection. The VPg of potato virus A (PVA) contains the Tyr-X-X-X-X-Leu-phi (YXXXLΦ) binding motif for eIF(iso)4E. In order to investigate its role in PVA infection, we substituted the conserved tyrosine and leucine residues of the motif with alanine residues in the infectious cDNA of PVA (PVAVPgmut). PVAVPgmut RNA replicated in infiltrated leaves, but RNA accumulation remained low. Systemic infection occurred only if a reversion to wild type PVA occurred. VPg was able to stabilize PVA RNA and enhance the expression of Renilla luciferase (3’RLUC) from the 3’ end of the PVA genome. VPgmut could not support either PVA RNA stabilization or enhanced 3’RLUC expression. The RNA silencing suppressor helper-component proteinase (HCPro) is responsible for the formation of PVA-induced RNA granules (PGs) during infection. While VPgmut increased the number of PG-like foci, the percentage of PVA RNA co-localization with PGs was reduced from 86% to 20%. A testable hypothesis for future studies based on these results is that the binding of eIF(iso)4E to PVA VPg via the YXXXLΦ motif is required for PVA RNA stabilization, as well as the transfer to the RNA silencing suppression pathway and, further, to polysomes for viral protein synthesis.

scholarly journals Effect of the Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus Nonvirion Protein on Translation via PERK-eIF2α Pathway

Viruses ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Powell Kesterson ◽  
Jeffery Ringiesn ◽  
Vikram N. Vakharia ◽  
Brian S. Shepherd ◽  
Douglas W. Leaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Freshwater Ecosystems ◽  
Innate Immune ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia

Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is one of the most deadly infectious fish pathogens, posing a serious threat to the aquaculture industry and freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Previous work showed that VHSV sub-genotype IVb suppresses host innate immune responses, but the exact mechanism by which VHSV IVb inhibits antiviral response remains incompletely characterized. As with other novirhabdoviruses, VHSV IVb contains a unique and highly variable nonvirion (NV) gene, which is implicated in viral replication, virus-induced apoptosis and regulating interferon (IFN) production. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the role of IVb NV gene in regulating viral or cellular processes is poorly understood. Compared to the wild-type recombinant (rWT) VHSV, mutant VHSV lacking a functional IVb NV reduced IFN expression and compromised innate immune response of the host cells by inhibiting translation. VHSV IVb infection increased phosphorylated eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (p-eIF2α), resulting in host translation shutoff. However, VHSV IVb protein synthesis proceeds despite increasing phosphorylation of eIF2α. During VHSV IVb infection, eIF2α phosphorylation was mediated via PKR-like endoplasmic reticulum kinase (PERK) and was required for efficient viral protein synthesis, but shutoff of host translation and IFN signaling was independent of p-eIF2α. Similarly, IVb NV null VHSV infection induced less p-eIF2α, but exhibited decreased viral protein synthesis despite increased levels of viral mRNA. These findings show a role for IVb NV in VHSV pathogenesis by utilizing the PERK-eIF2α pathway for viral-mediated host shutoff and interferon signaling to regulate host cell response.

scholarly journals Host and Viral Translational Mechanisms during Cricket Paralysis Virus Infection

2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 1124-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianne L. Garrey ◽  
Yun-Young Lee ◽  
Hilda H. T. Au ◽  
Martin Bushell ◽  
Eric Jan
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Rna Virus ◽  
Virus Production ◽  
Translation Initiation Factor ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
S2 Cells ◽  
Structural Protein ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Paralysis Virus

ABSTRACT The dicistrovirus is a positive-strand single-stranded RNA virus that possesses two internal ribosome entry sites (IRES) that direct translation of distinct open reading frames encoding the viral structural and nonstructural proteins. Through an unusual mechanism, the intergenic region (IGR) IRES responsible for viral structural protein expression mimics a tRNA to directly recruit the ribosome and set the ribosome into translational elongation. In this study, we explored the mechanism of host translational shutoff in Drosophila S2 cells infected by the dicistrovirus, cricket paralysis virus (CrPV). CrPV infection of S2 cells results in host translational shutoff concomitant with an increase in viral protein synthesis. CrPV infection resulted in the dissociation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4G (eIF4G) and eIF4E early in infection and the induction of deIF2α phosphorylation at 3 h postinfection, which lags after the initial inhibition of host translation. Forced dephosphorylation of deIF2α by overexpression of dGADD34, which activates protein phosphatase I, did not prevent translational shutoff nor alter virus production, demonstrating that deIF2α phosphorylation is dispensable for host translational shutoff. However, premature induction of deIF2α phosphorylation by thapsigargin treatment early in infection reduced viral protein synthesis and replication. Finally, translation mediated by the 5′ untranslated region (5′UTR) and the IGR IRES were resistant to impairment of eIF4F or eIF2 in translation extracts. These results support a model by which the alteration of the deIF4F complex contribute to the shutoff of host translation during CrPV infection, thereby promoting viral protein synthesis via the CrPV 5′UTR and IGR IRES.

scholarly journals Paramyxovirus-Induced Shutoff of Host and Viral Protein Synthesis: Role of the P and V Proteins in Limiting PKR Activation

2007 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 828-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria D. Gainey ◽  
Patrick J. Dillon ◽  
Kimberly M. Clark ◽  
Mary J. Manuse ◽  
Griffith D. Parks
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Hela Cells ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Translation Initiation Factor ◽  
Host Protein ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Mrnas ◽  
V Protein

ABSTRACT The paramyxovirus simian virus 5 (SV5) establishes highly productive persistent infections of epithelial cells without inducing a global inhibition of translation. Here we show that an SV5 mutant (the P/V-CPI− mutant) with substitutions in the P subunit of the viral polymerase and the accessory V protein also establishes highly productive infections like wild-type (WT) SV5 but that cells infected with the P/V-CPI− mutant show an overall shutdown of both host and viral translation at late times postinfection. Reduced host and viral protein synthesis with the P/V-CPI− virus was not due to lower levels of mRNA or caspase-dependent apoptosis and correlated with phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor eIF-2α. WT SV5 was a poor activator of the eIF-2α kinase protein kinase R (PKR). By contrast, the P/V-CPI− mutant induced PKR phosphorylation, which correlated with the time course of translation inhibition but was independent of interferon signaling. In HeLa cells that expressed the PKR inhibitor influenza A virus NS1 or reovirus sigma3, the rate of host protein synthesis at late times after infection with the P/V-CPI− mutant was restored to ∼50% that of control HeLa cells. By contrast, the rates of P/V-CPI− viral protein synthesis in HeLa cells expressing NS1 or sigma3 were dramatically enhanced, between 5- and 20-fold, while levels of viral mRNA were increased only slightly (NS1-expressing cells) or remained constant (sigma3-expressing cells). Similar results were found using HeLa cells where PKR levels were reduced due to knockdown by small interfering RNA. Expression of either the WT P or the WT V protein from the genome of the P/V-CPI− mutant resulted in lower levels of PKR activation and rates of host and viral protein synthesis that closely matched those seen with WT SV5. Despite higher rates of translation, cells infected with the V- or P-complemented virus accumulated viral mRNAs to lower levels than that seen with the parental P/V-CPI− mutant. We present a model in which the paramyxovirus P/V gene products limit induction of PKR by limiting the synthesis of aberrant viral mRNAs and double-stranded RNA and thus prevent the shutdown of translation by a mechanism that differs from that of other PKR inhibitors such as NS1 and sigma3.

scholarly journals Stress granule-inducing eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A inhibitors block influenza A virus replication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick D. Slaine ◽  
Mariel Kleer ◽  
Nathan Smith ◽  
Denys A. Khaperskyy ◽  
Craig McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Influenza A Virus ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Translation Initiation Factor ◽  
Host Protein ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Infected Cells ◽  
Pateamine A

ABSTRACTEukaryotic translation initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) is a helicase that facilitates assembly of the translation preinitiation complex by unwinding structured mRNA 5’ untranslated regions. Pateamine A (PatA) and silvestrol are natural products that disrupt eIF4A function and arrest translation, thereby triggering the formation of cytoplasmic aggregates of stalled preinitiation complexes known as stress granules (SGs). Here we examined the effects of eIF4A inhibition by PatA and silvestrol on influenza A virus (IAV) protein synthesis and replication in cell culture. Treatment of infected cells with either PatA or silvestrol at early times post-infection results in SG formation, arrest of viral protein synthesis and failure to replicate the viral genome. PatA, which irreversibly binds to eIF4A, sustained long-term blockade of IAV replication following drug withdrawal, and inhibited IAV replication at concentrations that had minimal cytotoxicity. By contrast, the antiviral effects of silvestrol were fully reversible; drug withdrawal caused rapid SG dissolution and resumption of viral protein synthesis. IAV inhibition by silvestrol was invariably associated with cytotoxicity. PatA blocked replication of genetically divergent IAV strains, suggesting common dependence on host eIF4A activity. This study demonstrates the feasibility of targeting core host protein synthesis machinery to prevent viral replication.IMPORTANCEInfluenza A virus (IAV) relies on cellular protein synthesis to decode viral messenger RNAs. Pateamine A and silvestrol are natural products that inactivate an essential protein synthesis protein known as eIF4A. Here we show that IAV is sensitive to these eIF4A inhibitor drugs. Treatment of infected cells with pateamine A or silvestrol prevented synthesis of viral proteins, viral genome replication and release of infectious virions. The irreversible eIF4A inhibitor pateamine A sustained long-term blockade of viral replication, whereas viral protein synthesis quickly resumed after silvestrol was removed from infected cells. Prolonged incubation of either infected or uninfected cells with these drugs induced the programmed cell death cascade called apoptosis. Our findings suggest that core components of the host protein synthesis machinery are viable targets for antiviral drug discovery. The most promising drug candidates should selectively block protein synthesis in infected cells without perturbing bystander uninfected cells.

scholarly journals Rotavirus Nonstructural Protein NSP3 Is Not Required for Viral Protein Synthesis

2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (18) ◽  
pp. 9031-9038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Montero ◽  
Carlos F. Arias ◽  
Susana Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Nonstructural Protein ◽  
Consensus Sequence ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Cell Protein ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Viral Mrnas ◽  
Initiation Of Translation ◽  
Cellular Mrnas

ABSTRACT Initiation is the rate-limiting step in protein synthesis and therefore an important target for regulation. For the initiation of translation of most cellular mRNAs, the cap structure at the 5′ end is bound by the translation factor eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E), while the poly(A) tail, at the 3′ end, is recognized by the poly(A)-binding protein (PABP). eIF4G is a scaffold protein that brings together eIF4E and PABP, causing the circularization of the mRNA that is thought to be important for an efficient initiation of translation. Early in infection, rotaviruses take over the host translation machinery, causing a severe shutoff of cell protein synthesis. Rotavirus mRNAs lack a poly(A) tail but have instead a consensus sequence at their 3′ ends that is bound by the viral nonstructural protein NSP3, which also interacts with eIF4GI, using the same region employed by PABP. It is widely believed that these interactions lead to the translation of rotaviral mRNAs, impairing at the same time the translation of cellular mRNAs. In this work, the expression of NSP3 in infected cells was knocked down using RNA interference. Unexpectedly, under these conditions the synthesis of viral proteins was not decreased, while the cellular protein synthesis was restored. Also, the yield of viral progeny increased, which correlated with an increased synthesis of viral RNA. Silencing the expression of eIF4GI further confirmed that the interaction between eIF4GI and NSP3 is not required for viral protein synthesis. These results indicate that NSP3 is neither required for the translation of viral mRNAs nor essential for virus replication in cell culture.

scholarly journals Human Cytomegalovirus pTRS1 and pIRS1 Antagonize Protein Kinase R To Facilitate Virus Replication

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (8) ◽  
pp. 3839-3848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ziehr ◽  
Heather A. Vincent ◽  
Nathaniel J. Moorman
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Protein Kinase ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Hcmv Infection ◽  
Initiation Factor ◽  
Host Defenses ◽  
Protein Kinase R ◽  
Viral Protein Synthesis ◽  
Eif2α Phosphorylation ◽  
Hcmv Replication

ABSTRACTHuman cytomegalovirus (HCMV) counteracts host defenses that otherwise act to limit viral protein synthesis. One such defense is the antiviral kinase protein kinase R (PKR), which inactivates the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2) translation initiation factor upon binding to viral double-stranded RNAs. Previously, the viral TRS1 and IRS1 proteins were found to antagonize the antiviral kinase PKR outside the context of HCMV infection, and the expression of either pTRS1 or pIRS1 was shown to be necessary for HCMV replication. In this study, we found that expression of either pTRS1 or pIRS1 is necessary to prevent PKR activation during HCMV infection and that antagonism of PKR is critical for efficient viral replication. Consistent with a previous study, we observed decreased overall levels of protein synthesis, reduced viral protein expression, and diminished virus replication in the absence of both pTRS1 and pIRS1. In addition, both PKR and eIF2α were phosphorylated during infection when pTRS1 and pIRS1 were absent. We also found that expression of pTRS1 was both necessary and sufficient to prevent stress granule formation in response to eIF2α phosphorylation. Depletion of PKR prevented eIF2α phosphorylation, rescued HCMV replication and protein synthesis, and reversed the accumulation of stress granules in infected cells. Infection with an HCMV mutant lacking the pTRS1 PKR binding domain resulted in PKR activation, suggesting that pTRS1 inhibits PKR through a direct interaction. Together our results show that antagonism of PKR by HCMV pTRS1 and pIRS1 is critical for viral protein expression and efficient HCMV replication.IMPORTANCETo successfully replicate, viruses must counteract host defenses that limit viral protein synthesis. We have identified inhibition of the antiviral kinase PKR by the viral proteins TRS1 and IRS1 and shown that this is a critical step in HCMV replication. Our results suggest that inhibiting pTRS1 and pIRS1 function or restoring PKR activity during infection may be a successful strategy to limit HCMV disease.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Protein Accumulation from the 3′ End of Viral RNA Are Different from Those in the Rest of the Genome in Potato Virus A Infection

2019 ◽  
Vol 93 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shreya Saha ◽  
Anders Hafren ◽  
Kristiina Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Potato Virus ◽  
Viral Protein ◽  
Natural Infection ◽  
Ectopic Expression ◽  
Viral Rna ◽  
Protein Accumulation ◽  
Particle Assembly ◽  
Reading Frame ◽  
Potato Virus A ◽  
Rna Accumulation

ABSTRACT One large open reading frame (ORF) encodes 10 potyviral proteins. We compared the accumulation of cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from the middle, coat protein (CP) from the 3′end, and Renilla luciferase (RLUC) from two distinct locations in potato virus A (PVA) RNA. 5′ RLUC was expressed from an rluc gene inserted between the P1 and helper component proteinase (HCPro) cistrons, and 3′ RLUC was expressed from the gene inserted between the RNA polymerase and CP cistrons. Viral protein and RNA accumulation were quantitated (i) when expressed from PVA RNA in the presence of ectopically expressed genome-linked viral protein (VPg) and auxiliary proteins and (ii) at different time points during natural infection. The rate and timing of 3′ RLUC and CP accumulation were found to be different from those of 5′ RLUC and CI. Ectopic expression of VPg boosted PVA RNA, 3′ RLUC, and, together with HCPro, CP accumulation, whereas 5′ RLUC and CI accumulation remained unaffected regardless of the increased viral RNA amount. In natural infection, the rate of the noteworthy minute early accumulation of 3′ RLUC accelerated toward the end of infection. 5′ RLUC accumulation, which was already pronounced at 2 days postinfection, increased moderately and stabilized to a constant level by day 5, whereas PVA RNA and CP levels continued to increase throughout the infection. We propose that these observations connect with the mechanisms by which potyvirus infection limits CP accumulation during early infection and specifically supports its accumulation late in infection, but follow-up studies are required to understand the mechanism of how this occurs. IMPORTANCE The results of this study suggest that the dynamics of potyviral protein accumulation are regulated differentially from the 3′ end of viral RNA than from the rest of the genome, the significance of which would be to satisfy the needs of replication early and particle assembly late in infection.

Renilla luciferase-based quantitation of Potato virus A infection initiated with Agrobacterium infiltration of N. benthamiana leaves

2010 ◽  
Vol 164 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Eskelin ◽  
T. Suntio ◽  
S. Hyvärinen ◽  
A. Hafren ◽  
K. Mäkinen
Keyword(s):  
Potato Virus ◽  
Renilla Luciferase ◽  
Potato Virus A
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