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- Title
Identification of cleavage of NS5A of C-strain classical swine fever virus.
- Authors
Xie, Jinxin; Guo, Huancheng; Gong, Wenjie; Jiang, Daliang; Zhang, Li; Jia, Junjie; Tu, Changchun
- Abstract
NS5A is a multifunctional non-structural protein of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) that plays an important role in viral replication, but how it exerts its functions is unknown. Here, we report the cleavage of NS5A of the vaccine C-strain, resulting in two truncated forms (b and c). Further experiments using calpain- and caspase-family-specific inhibitors, followed by a caspase-6-specific shRNAs and inhibitor, showed that the cleavage of C-strain NS5A to produce truncated form c is mediated by caspase-6, mapping to DTTD, while the cleavage producing truncated form b is probably mediated by another unknown protease. shRNA-mediated downregulation of caspase-6 and blocking of enzyme activity in ST cells significantly impaired genome replication and virus production, indicating that NS5A cleavage is required for CSFV replication.
- Subjects
CLASSICAL swine fever; VIRAL replication; DOWNREGULATION; VIRAL genomes; VIRUS-induced enzymes
- Publication
Archives of Virology, 2017, Vol 162, Issue 2, p391
- ISSN
0304-8608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00705-016-3117-z