We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Identification of Orbivirus Non-Structural Protein 5 (NS5), Its Role and Interaction with RNA/DNA in Infected Cells.
- Authors
Mohd Jaafar, Fauziah; Monsion, Baptiste; Mertens, Peter P. C.; Attoui, Houssam
- Abstract
Bioinformatic analyses have predicted that orbiviruses encode an additional, small non-structural protein (NS5) from a secondary open reading frame on genome segment 10. However, this protein has not previously been detected in infected mammalian or insect cells. NS5-specific antibodies were generated in mice and were used to identify NS5 synthesised in orbivirus-infected BSR cells or cells transfected with NS5 expression plasmids. Confocal microscopy shows that although NS5 accumulates in the nucleus, particularly in the nucleolus, which becomes disrupted, it also appears in the cell cytoplasm, co-localising with mitochondria. NS5 helps to prevent the degradation of ribosomal RNAs during infection and reduces host-cell protein synthesis However, it helps to extend cell viability by supporting viral protein synthesis and virus replication. Pulldown studies showed that NS5 binds to ssRNAs and supercoiled DNAs and demonstrates interactions with ZBP1, suggesting that it modulates host-cell responses.
- Subjects
KEMEROVO (Russia); VIRAL proteins; DNA; RNA; PROTEINS; PROTEIN synthesis; HOST-virus relationships; OPEN reading frames (Genetics); PLASMIDS
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 7, p6845
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms24076845