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Bailey-Elkin BA, Knaap RCM, Kikkert M, Mark BL. Structure and Function of Viral Deubiquitinating Enzymes. J Mol Biol 2017; 429:3441-3470. [PMID: 28625850 PMCID: PMC7094624 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Revised: 06/12/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
Abstract
Post-translational modification of cellular proteins by ubiquitin regulates numerous cellular processes, including innate and adaptive immune responses. Ubiquitin-mediated control over these processes can be reversed by cellular deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), which remove ubiquitin from cellular targets and depolymerize polyubiquitin chains. The importance of protein ubiquitination to host immunity has been underscored by the discovery of viruses that encode proteases with deubiquitinating activity, many of which have been demonstrated to actively corrupt cellular ubiquitin-dependent processes to suppress innate antiviral responses and promote viral replication. DUBs have now been identified in diverse viral lineages, and their characterization is providing valuable insights into virus biology and the role of the ubiquitin system in host antiviral mechanisms. Here, we provide an overview of the structural biology of these fascinating viral enzymes and their role innate immune evasion and viral replication.
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- Ben A Bailey-Elkin
- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T2N2, Canada
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2333 ZA Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T2N2, Canada.
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Wu A, Wang Y, Zeng C, Huang X, Xu S, Su C, Wang M, Chen Y, Guo D. Prediction and biochemical analysis of putative cleavage sites of the 3C-like protease of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Virus Res 2015; 208:56-65. [PMID: 26036787 PMCID: PMC7114542 DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2015.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2015] [Revised: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 05/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Coronavirus 3C-like protease (3CLpro) is responsible for the cleavage of coronaviral polyprotein 1a/1ab (pp1a/1ab) to produce the mature non-structural proteins (nsps) of nsp4-16. The nsp5 of the newly emerging Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was identified as 3CLpro and its canonical cleavage sites (between nsps) were predicted based on sequence alignment, but the cleavability of these cleavage sites remains to be experimentally confirmed and putative non-canonical cleavage sites (inside one nsp) within the pp1a/1ab awaits further analysis. Here, we proposed a method for predicting coronaviral 3CLpro cleavage sites which balances the prediction accuracy and false positive outcomes. By applying this method to MERS-CoV, the 11 canonical cleavage sites were readily identified and verified by the biochemical assays. The Michaelis constant of the canonical cleavage sites of MERS-CoV showed that the substrate specificity of MERS-CoV 3CLpro is relatively conserved. Interestingly, nine putative non-canonical cleavage sites were predicted and three of them could be cleaved by MERS-CoV nsp5. These results pave the way for identification and functional characterization of new nsp products of coronaviruses.
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- Andong Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Virology, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China; School of Basic Medical Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan, PR China.
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Kong L, Shaw N, Yan L, Lou Z, Rao Z. Structural view and substrate specificity of papain-like protease from avian infectious bronchitis virus. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:7160-8. [PMID: 25609249 PMCID: PMC4358136 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.628636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Papain-like protease (PLpro) of coronaviruses (CoVs) carries out proteolytic maturation of non-structural proteins that play a role in replication of the virus and performs deubiquitination of host cell factors to scuttle antiviral responses. Avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), the causative agent of bronchitis in chicken that results in huge economic losses every year in the poultry industry globally, encodes a PLpro. The substrate specificities of this PLpro are not clearly understood. Here, we show that IBV PLpro can degrade Lys48- and Lys63-linked polyubiquitin chains to monoubiquitin but not linear polyubiquitin. To explain the substrate specificities, we have solved the crystal structure of PLpro from IBV at 2.15-Å resolution. The overall structure is reminiscent of the structure of severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV PLpro. However, unlike the severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV PLpro that lacks blocking loop (BL) 1 of deubiquitinating enzymes, the IBV PLpro has a short BL1-like loop. Access to a conserved catalytic triad consisting of Cys101, His264, and Asp275 is regulated by the flexible BL2. A model of ubiquitin-bound IBV CoV PLpro brings out key differences in substrate binding sites of PLpros. In particular, P3 and P4 subsites as well as residues interacting with the β-barrel of ubiquitin are different, suggesting different catalytic efficiencies and substrate specificities. We show that IBV PLpro cleaves peptide substrates KKAG-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin and LRGG-7-amino-4-methylcoumarin with different catalytic efficiencies. These results demonstrate that substrate specificities of IBV PLpro are different from other PLpros and that IBV PLpro might target different ubiquitinated host factors to aid the propagation of the virus.
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- Lingying Kong
- From the Laboratory of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China, and National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China
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- From the Laboratory of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- From the Laboratory of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- From the Laboratory of Structural Biology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China, and National Laboratory of Macromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China
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Xu L, Khadijah S, Fang S, Wang L, Tay FPL, Liu DX. The cellular RNA helicase DDX1 interacts with coronavirus nonstructural protein 14 and enhances viral replication. J Virol 2010; 84:8571-83. [PMID: 20573827 PMCID: PMC2918985 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.00392-10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2010] [Accepted: 06/03/2010] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The involvement of host proteins in the replication and transcription of viral RNA is a poorly understood area for many RNA viruses. For coronaviruses, it was long speculated that replication of the giant RNA genome and transcription of multiple subgenomic mRNA species by a unique discontinuous transcription mechanism may require host cofactors. To search for such cellular proteins, yeast two-hybrid screening was carried out by using the nonstructural protein 14 (nsp14) from the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) as a bait protein, leading to the identification of DDX1, a cellular RNA helicase in the DExD/H helicase family, as a potential interacting partner. This interaction was subsequently confirmed by coimmunoprecipitation assays with cells coexpressing the two proteins and with IBV-infected cells. Furthermore, the endogenous DDX1 protein was found to be relocated from the nucleus to the cytoplasm in IBV-infected cells. In addition to its interaction with IBV nsp14, DDX1 could also interact with the nsp14 protein from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), suggesting that interaction with DDX1 may be a general feature of coronavirus nsp14. The interacting domains were mapped to the C-terminal region of DDX1 containing motifs V and VI and to the N-terminal portion of nsp14. Manipulation of DDX1 expression, either by small interfering RNA-induced knockdown or by overexpression of a mutant DDX1 protein, confirmed that this interaction may enhance IBV replication. This study reveals that DDX1 contributes to efficient coronavirus replication in cell culture.
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- Linghui Xu
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551
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Shen H, Fang SG, Chen B, Chen G, Tay FPL, Liu DX. Towards construction of viral vectors based on avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus for gene delivery and vaccine development. J Virol Methods 2009; 160:48-56. [PMID: 19409420 PMCID: PMC7112882 DOI: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2008] [Revised: 04/14/2009] [Accepted: 04/20/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Manipulation of the coronavirus genome to accommodate and express foreign genes is an attractive approach for gene delivery and vaccine development. By using an infectious cloning system developed recently for the avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) gene, the firefly luciferase gene and several host and viral genes (eIF3f, SARS ORF6, Dengue virus 1 core protein gene) were inserted into various positions of the IBV genome, and the effects on gene expression, virus recovery, and stability in cell culture were studied. Selected viruses were also inoculated into chicken embryos for studies of foreign gene expression at different tissue level. The results demonstrated the stability of recombinant viruses depends on the intrinsic properties of the foreign gene itself as well as the position at which the foreign genes were inserted. For unstable viruses, the loss of expression of the inserted genes was found to result from a large deletion of the inserted gene and even IBV backbone sequences. This represents a promising system for development of coronavirus-based gene delivery vectors and vaccines against coronavirus and other viral infections in chicken.
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- Hongyuan Shen
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore, Singapore
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Chen B, Fang S, Tam JP, Liu DX. Formation of stable homodimer via the C-terminal alpha-helical domain of coronavirus nonstructural protein 9 is critical for its function in viral replication. Virology 2008; 383:328-37. [PMID: 19022466 PMCID: PMC7103386 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.10.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2008] [Revised: 09/05/2008] [Accepted: 10/23/2008] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Coronaviruses devote more than three quarters of their coding capacity to encode two large polyproteins (1a and 1ab polyproteins), which are proteolytically processed into 15-16 mature, nonstructural replicase proteins (nsp1 to 16). These cleavage products are believed to play essential roles in replication of the giant RNA genome of approximately 30 kb and transcription of a nested set of 5 to 9 subgenomic RNA species by a unique discontinuous transcription mechanism. In this report, one of these replicase proteins, nsp9 of the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is systematically studied using both biochemical and reverse genetic approaches. The results showed that substitution mutation of a conserved Gly (G98) residue in the C-terminal alpha-helix domain with an Asp greatly destabilized the IBV nsp9 homodimer and abolished its RNA-binding activity. Introduction of the same mutation into an infectious IBV clone system showed that the mutation totally abolishes the transcription of subgenomic RNA and no infectious virus could be recovered. Mutation of a semi-conserved Ile (I95) residue in the same region showed moderately destabilizing effect on the IBV nsp9 homodimer but minimal effect on its RNA-binding activity. Introduction of the mutation into the IBV infectious clone system showed recovery of a mutant virus with severe growth defects, supporting that dimerization is critical for the function of this replicase protein. Meanwhile, mutations of some positively charged residues in the beta-barrel regions of the IBV nsp9 protein significantly reduced its RNA-binding activity, but with no obvious effect on dimerization of the protein. Introduction of these mutations into the viral genome showed only mild to moderate effects on the growth and infectivity of the rescued mutant viruses.
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- Bo Chen
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
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Fang S, Chen B, Tay FP, Ng BS, Liu DX. An arginine-to-proline mutation in a domain with undefined functions within the helicase protein (Nsp13) is lethal to the coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus in cultured cells. Virology 2006; 358:136-47. [PMID: 16979681 PMCID: PMC7111978 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2006] [Revised: 06/30/2006] [Accepted: 08/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Genetic manipulation of the RNA genomes by reverse genetics is a powerful tool to study the molecular biology and pathogenesis of RNA viruses. During construction of an infectious clone from a Vero cell-adapted coronavirus infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), we found that a G–C point mutation at nucleotide position 15526, causing Arg-to-Pro mutation at amino acid position 132 of the helicase protein, is lethal to the infectivity of IBV on Vero cells. When the in vitro-synthesized full-length transcripts containing this mutation were introduced into Vero cells, no infectious virus was rescued. Upon correction of the mutation, infectious virus was recovered. Further characterization of the in vitro-synthesized full-length transcripts containing the G15526C mutation demonstrated that this mutation may block the transcription of subgenomic RNAs. Substitution mutation of the Arg132 residue to a positively charged amino acid Lys affected neither the infectivity of the in vitro-synthesized transcripts nor the growth properties of the rescued virus. However, mutation of the Arg132 residue to Leu, a conserved residue in other coronaviruses at the same position, reduced the recovery rate of the in vitro-synthesized transcripts. The recovered mutant virus showed much smaller-sized plaques. On the contrary, a G–C and a G–A point mutations at nucleotide positions 4330 and 9230, respectively, causing Glu–Gln and Gly–Glu mutations in or near the catalytic centers of the papain-like (Nsp3) and 3C-like (Nsp5) proteinases, did not show detectable detrimental effect on the rescue of infectious viruses and the infectivity of the rescued viruses.
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- Shouguo Fang
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, 138673 Singapore
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, 637551 Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, 138673 Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, 138673 Singapore
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- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, 138673 Singapore
- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, 637551 Singapore
- Corresponding author. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, 138673 Singapore.
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