Caspases rule the intracellular trafficking cartel

Duclos, Catherine; Lavoie, Christine; Denault, Jean‐Bernard

doi:10.1111/febs.14071

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“…1A and 5A), we created mutant plasmids designed to express HAZV S segments in which the ENKD and DQVD motifs within the N ORF were individually perturbed by mutation. The aspartic acid (D) residues at position 1 within these motifs (underlined above) are known to be critical for caspase recognition and cleavage (28). Therefore, this residue was changed to glutamic acid (E) in both cases, to generate the noncleavable sequences ENKE and DQVE.…”

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Rescue of Infectious Recombinant Hazara Nairovirus from cDNA Reveals the Nucleocapsid Protein DQVD Caspase Cleavage Motif Performs an Essential Role other than Cleavage

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Surtees

Slack

et al. 2019

J Virol

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The Nairoviridae family of the Bunyavirales order comprises tick-borne, trisegmented, negative-strand RNA viruses, with several members being associated with serious or fatal diseases in humans and animals. A notable member is Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), which is the most widely distributed tick-borne pathogen and is associated with devastating human disease, with case fatality rates averaging 30%. Hazara virus (HAZV) is closely related to CCHFV, sharing the same serogroup and many structural, biochemical, and cellular properties. To improve understanding of HAZV and nairovirus multiplication cycles, we developed, for the first time, a rescue system permitting efficient recovery of infectious HAZV from cDNA. This system now allows reverse genetic analysis of nairoviruses without the need for high-level biosafety containment, as is required for CCHFV. We used this system to test the importance of a DQVD caspase cleavage site exposed on the apex of the HAZV nucleocapsid protein arm domain that is cleaved during HAZV infection, for which the equivalent DEVD sequence was recently shown to be important for CCHFV growth in tick but not mammalian cells. Infectious HAZV bearing an uncleavable DQVE sequence was rescued and exhibited growth parameters equivalent to those of wild-type virus in both mammalian and tick cells, showing this site was dispensable for virus multiplication. In contrast, substitution of the DQVD motif with the similarly uncleavable AQVA sequence could not be rescued despite repeated efforts. Together, these results highlight the importance of this caspase cleavage site in the HAZV life cycle but reveal the DQVD sequence performs a critical role aside from caspase cleavage. IMPORTANCE HAZV is classified within the Nairoviridae family with CCHFV, which is one of the most lethal human pathogens in existence, requiring the highest biosafety level (BSL) containment (BSL4). In contrast, HAZV is not associated with human disease and thus can be studied using less-restrictive BSL2 protocols. Here, we report a system that is able to rescue HAZV from cDNAs, thus permitting reverse genetic interrogation of the HAZV replication cycle. We used this system to examine the role of a caspase cleavage site, DQVD, within the HAZV nucleocapsid protein that is also conserved in CCHFV. By engineering mutant viruses, we showed caspase cleavage at this site was not required for productive infection and this sequence performs a critical role in the virus life cycle aside from caspase cleavage. This system will accelerate nairovirus research due to its efficiency and utility under amenable BSL2 protocols.

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Section: Confirmation Of Hazv Rescue From a Cdna Source By Incorporatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rescue of Infectious Recombinant Hazara Nairovirus from cDNA Reveals the Nucleocapsid Protein DQVD Caspase Cleavage Motif Performs an Essential Role other than Cleavage

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Surtees

Slack

et al. 2019

J Virol

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“…Caspase 3 can also be activated by Granzyme B, allowing T lymphocytes and natural killer cells to initiate apoptosis in target cells. The substrate landscape in non-apoptotic events may be much broader [61], as suggested by recent global proteomics studies. The “forward” approach involves triggering endogenous caspases to identify native substrates in intact cells, whereas in the “reverse” approach exogenous caspases are added to cell lysates.…”

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confidence: 99%

Proteases: Pivot Points in Functional Proteomics

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Leonard

Perkins

2018

Functional Proteomics

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Proteases drive the life cycle of all proteins, ensuring the transportation and activation of newly minted, would-be proteins into their functional form while recycling spent or unneeded proteins. Far from their image as engines of protein digestion, proteases play fundamental roles in basic physiology and regulation at multiple levels of systems biology. Proteases are intimately associated with disease and modulation of proteolytic activity is the presumed target for successful therapeutics. “Proteases: Pivot Points in Functional Proteomics” examines the crucial roles of proteolysis across a wide range of physiological processes and diseases. The existing and potential impacts of proteolysis-related activity on drug and biomarker development are presented in detail. All told the decisive roles of proteases in four major categories comprising 23 separate sub-categories are addressed. Within this construct, 15 sets of subject-specific, tabulated data are presented that include identification of proteases, protease inhibitors, substrates and their actions. Said data are derived from and confirmed by over 300 references. Cross comparison of datasets indicates that proteases, their inhibitors/promoters and substrates intersect over a range of physiological processes and diseases, both chronic and pathogenic. Indeed, “Proteases: Pivot Points …” closes by dramatizing this very point through association of (pro)Thrombin and Fibrin(ogen) with: hemostasis, innate immunity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, cancer, neurodegeneration and bacterial self-defense.

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“…Caspases are a family of cysteine-aspartic proteases that drive the process of apoptosis by cleaving essential proteins and thus dismantling the unwanted or damaged cell [13]. Caspases 3 and 7 are effector caspases that are activated in response to initiator caspases, caspases 8 and 9, which are activated in response to an extrinsic or intrinsic signal, respectively [13,14]. Caspase 3/7 activation is used as a surrogate marker for apoptosis [15,16].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imaging Proteolytic Activities in Mouse Models of Cancer

Pal

Rehemtulla

2018

Methods in Molecular Biology

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Proteases are "protein-cleaving" enzymes, which, in addition to their non-specific degrading function, also catalyze the highly specific and regulated process of proteolytic processing, thus regulating multiple biological functions. Alterations in proteolytic activity occur during pathological conditions such as cancer. One of the major deregulated classes of proteases in cancer is caspases, the proteolytic initiators and mediators of the apoptotic machinery. The ability to image apoptosis noninvasively in living cells and animal models of cancer can not only provide new insight into the biological basis of the disease but can also be used as a quantitative tool to screen and evaluate novel therapeutic strategies. Optical molecular imaging such as bioluminescence-based genetically engineered biosensors has been developed in our laboratory and exploited to study protease activity in animal models with a high signal to noise. Using the circularly permuted form of firefly luciferase, we have developed a reporter for Caspase 3/7, referred to as Caspase 3/7 GloSensor. Here, we discuss the use of the Caspase 3/7 GloSensor for imaging apoptotic activity in mouse xenografts and genetically engineered mouse models of cancer and present the potential of this powerful platform technology to image the proteolytic activity of numerous other proteases.

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Caspases rule the intracellular trafficking cartel

Cited by 19 publications

References 171 publications

Rescue of Infectious Recombinant Hazara Nairovirus from cDNA Reveals the Nucleocapsid Protein DQVD Caspase Cleavage Motif Performs an Essential Role other than Cleavage

Rescue of Infectious Recombinant Hazara Nairovirus from cDNA Reveals the Nucleocapsid Protein DQVD Caspase Cleavage Motif Performs an Essential Role other than Cleavage

Proteases: Pivot Points in Functional Proteomics

Imaging Proteolytic Activities in Mouse Models of Cancer

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