Host Factors Associated with the Sindbis Virus RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase: Role for G3BP1 and G3BP2 in Virus Replication

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Stress granules (SGs) are cytoplasmic storage sites containing translationally silenced mRNPs that can be released to resume translation after stress subsides. We previously showed that poliovirus 3C proteinase cleaves the SG-nucleating protein G3BP1, blocking the ability of cells to form SGs late in infection. Many other viruses also target G3BP1 and inhibit SG formation, but the reasons why these functions evolved are unclear. Previously, we also showed a link between G3BP1-induced SGs and protein kinase R (PKR)-mediated translational control, but the mechanism of PKR interplay with SG and the antiviral consequences are unknown. Here, we show that G3BP1 exhibits antiviral activity against several enteroviruses, whereas truncated G3BP1 that cannot form SGs does not. G3BP1-induced SGs are linked to activation of innate immune transcriptional responses through NF-B and JNK. The G3BP1-induced SGs also recruit PKR and other antiviral proteins. We show that the PXXP domain within G3BP1 is essential for the recruitment of PKR to SGs, for eIF2␣ phosphorylation driven by PKR, and for nucleating SGs of normal composition. We also show that deletion of the PXXP domain in G3BP1 compromises its antiviral activity. These findings tie PKR activation to its recruitment to SGs by G3BP1 and indicate that G3BP1 promotes innate immune responses at both the transcriptional and translational levels and integrates cellular stress responses and innate immunity. IMPORTANCEStress granules appear during virus infection, and their importance is not well understood. Previously, it was assumed that they were nonfunctional artifacts associated with cellular stress. PKR is a well-known antiviral protein; however, its regulation in cells is not well understood. Our work links cellular stress granules with activation of PKR and other innate immune pathways through the activity of G3BP1, a critical stress granule component. The ability of stress granules and G3BP1 to activate PKR and other innate immune transcriptional responses indicates that G3BP1 is an antiviral protein. This work helps to refine a longstanding paradigm indicating stress granules are inert structures and explains why G3BP1 is subverted by many viruses to promote a productive infection. Stress granules (SGs) are macromolecular triage centers for mRNAs that contain translationally silenced messenger RNPs (mRNPs). Stress granules contain many translation initiation factors, 40S ribosomal subunits, mRNAs, and RNA-binding proteins, which form in response to cellular stresses that inhibit protein synthesis (1, 2). Stress responses are induced during virus infection and are countered by viruses to maximize replication efficiency. Indeed, several examples of viral SG disruption and viral subversion of SG proteins have been described (3-6), indicating stress granules may play antiviral roles against these viruses. Ras-GTPase-activating protein (SH3 domain) binding protein 1 (G3BP1) is a stress granule-resident protein that nucleates stress granule assembly and is also inactiv...

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The Stress Granule Protein G3BP1 Recruits Protein Kinase R To Promote Multiple Innate Immune Antiviral Responses

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Lloyd

2015

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“…SGs are cytoplasmic phase-dense structures that occur in eukaryotic cells exposed to various environmental stress, including heat, arsenite, viral infection, oxidative conditions, UV irradiation, and hypoxia. Impor-tantly, several viruses target SGs and stress granule components for viral replication (10,11,34,39). Recent studies suggest that SGs and the P body physically interact and that mRNAs may move between the two compartments (1,6,22,28,30).…”

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Hepatitis C Virus Hijacks P-Body and Stress Granule Components around Lipid Droplets

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Kuroki

Kushima

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The microRNA miR-122 and DDX6/Rck/p54, a microRNA effector, have been implicated in hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. In this study, we demonstrated for the first time that HCV-JFH1 infection disrupted processing (P)-body formation of the microRNA effectors DDX6, Lsm1, Xrn1, PATL1, and Ago2, but not the decapping enzyme DCP2, and dynamically redistributed these microRNA effectors to the HCV production factory around lipid droplets in HuH-7-derived RSc cells. Notably, HCV-JFH1 infection also redistributed the stress granule components GTPase-activating protein (SH3 domain)-binding protein 1 (G3BP1), ataxin-2 (ATX2), and poly(A)-binding protein 1 (PABP1) to the HCV production factory. In this regard, we found that the P-body formation of DDX6 began to be disrupted at 36 h postinfection. Consistently, G3BP1 transiently formed stress granules at 36 h postinfection. We then observed the ringlike formation of DDX6 or G3BP1 and colocalization with HCV core after 48 h postinfection, suggesting that the disruption of P-body formation and the hijacking of P-body and stress granule components occur at a late step of HCV infection. Furthermore, HCV infection could suppress stress granule formation in response to heat shock or treatment with arsenite. Importantly, we demonstrate that the accumulation of HCV RNA was significantly suppressed in DDX6, Lsm1, ATX2, and PABP1 knockdown cells after the inoculation of HCV-JFH1, suggesting that the P-body and the stress granule components are required for the HCV life cycle. Altogether, HCV seems to hijack the P-body and the stress granule components for HCV replication.

“…Indeed, in this system, CPV-I vacuoles are absent, and the polyprotein is likely translated in a canonical fashion rather than proximal to CPV-I structures. The nonstructural proteins, likely compartmentalized at CPV-I vacuoles in a regular infection, have been shown to interact with numerous host proteins (6,18,35). In short, the NC assembly defects described here may not be able to be recapitulated via ectopic expression of the structural polyprotein because of the inherent differences in the organization or arrangement of viral proteins in the uninfected versus infected cell.…”

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“…Samples were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde-cacodylate buffer (0.1 M sodium cacodylate, 2 mM MgCl 2 , 2 mM CaCl 2 , 0.5% NaCl, pH 7.4) and then washed in cacodylate buffer followed by water. Samples were then postfixed with 2% OsO 4 and 1.5% K 4 Fe(CN) 6 and then rinsed with water. Processing of cells for immunostaining omitted the osmium tetroxide and potassium ferrocyanide.…”

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Probing the Early Temporal and Spatial Interaction of the Sindbis Virus Capsid and E2 Proteins with Reverse Genetics

Snyder

Berrios

Edwards

et al. 2012

A 7-Å cryoelectron microscopy-based reconstruction of Sindbis virus (SINV) was recently generated. Fitting the crystal structure of the SINV capsid protein (Cp) into the density map revealed that the F2-G2 loop of the Cp was shifted away from cytoplasmic domain of E2 (cdE2) in the 7-Å reconstruction relative to its position in the Cp crystal structure. Furthermore, the reconstruction demonstrated that residue E395 in region I of the cytoplasmic domain of the E2 envelope protein (cdE2-RI) and K252 of Cp, part of the Cp F2-G2 loop, formed a putative salt bridge in the virion. We generated amino acid substitutions at residues K250 and K252 of the SINV Cp and explored the resulting phenotypes. In the context of cells infected with wild-type or mutant virus, reversing the charge of these two residues resulted in the appearance of Cp aggregates around cytopathic vacuole type I (CPV-I) structures, the absence of nucleocapsid (NC) formation, and a lack of virus particle release in the infected mammalian cell. However, expressing the same Cp mutants in the cell without the envelope proteins or expressing and purifying the mutants from an Escherichia coli expression system and assembling in vitro yielded NC assembly in all cases. In addition, second-site mutations within cdE2 restored NC assembly but not release of infectious particles. Our data suggest an early temporal and spatial interaction between cdE2-RI and the Cp F2-G2 loop that, when ablated, leads to the absence of NC assembly. This interaction also appears to be important for budding of virus particles.