The host nonsense-mediated mRNA decay pathway restricts Mammalian RNA virus replication.
- Balistreri G Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address: giuseppe.balistreri@helsinki.fi.
- Horvath P Synthetic and System Biology Unit, Biological Research Center, 6726 Szeged, Hungary; FIMM Institute, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
- Schweingruber C Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland; Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
- Zünd D Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
- McInerney G Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
- Merits A Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, 50090 Tartu, Estonia.
- Mühlemann O Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
- Azzalin C Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Helenius A Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- 2014-09-12
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- Cell host & microbe. - 2014
Alphavirus Infections
Carrier Proteins
Host-Pathogen Interactions
Humans
Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay
RNA Helicases
Semliki forest virus
Trans-Activators
Viral Proteins
Virus Release
Virus Replication
English
In addition to classically defined immune mechanisms, cell-intrinsic processes can restrict virus infection and have shaped virus evolution. The details of this virus-host interaction are still emerging. Following a genome-wide siRNA screen for host factors affecting replication of Semliki Forest virus (SFV), a positive-strand RNA (+RNA) virus, we found that depletion of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) pathway components Upf1, Smg5, and Smg7 led to increased levels of viral proteins and RNA and higher titers of released virus. The inhibitory effect of NMD was stronger when virus replication efficiency was impaired by mutations or deletions in the replicase proteins. Consequently, depletion of NMD components resulted in a more than 20-fold increase in production of these attenuated viruses. These findings indicate that a cellular mRNA quality control mechanism serves as an intrinsic barrier to the translation of early viral proteins and the amplification of +RNA viruses in animal cells.
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- DOI 10.1016/j.chom.2014.08.007
- PMID 25211080
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