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Title: An intrinsically disordered peptide from Ebola virus VP35 controls viral RNA synthesis by modulating nucleoprotein-RNA interactions

Abstract

During viral RNA synthesis, Ebola virus (EBOV) nucleoprotein (NP) alternates between an RNA-template-bound form and a template-free form to provide the viral polymerase access to the RNA template. In addition, newly synthesized NP must be prevented from indiscriminately binding to noncognate RNAs. Here, we investigate the molecular bases for these critical processes. We identify an intrinsically disordered peptide derived from EBOV VP35 (NPBP, residues 20–48) that binds NP with high affinity and specificity, inhibits NP oligomerization, and releases RNA from NP-RNA complexes in vitro. The structure of the NPBP/ΔNPNTD complex, solved to 3.7 Å resolution, reveals how NPBP peptide occludes a large surface area that is important for NP-NP and NP-RNA interactions and for viral RNA synthesis. Together, our results identify a highly conserved viral interface that is important for EBOV replication and can be targeted for therapeutic development.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [4];  [1];  [1];  [5];  [3];  [1];  [6];  [5];  [7];  [2];  [3];  [1]
  1. Washington Univ. School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (United States)
  2. Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX (United States)
  3. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (United States)
  4. Texas Biomedical Research Inst., San Antonio, TX (United States)
  5. Bayor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (United States)
  6. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (United States); J. Craid Venter Inst., Rockville, MD (United States)
  7. Texas Biomedical Research Inst., San Antonio, TX (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1188738
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Cell Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2211-1247
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Leung, Daisy  W., Borek, Dominika, Luthra, Priya, Binning, Jennifer  M., Anantpadma, Manu, Liu, Gai, Harvey, Ian B., Su, Zhaoming, Endlich-Frazier, Ariel, Pan, Juanli, Shabman, Reed  S., Chiu, Wah, Davey, Robert  A., Otwinowski, Zbyszek, Basler, Christopher  F., and Amarasinghe, Gaya  K. An intrinsically disordered peptide from Ebola virus VP35 controls viral RNA synthesis by modulating nucleoprotein-RNA interactions. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.034.
Leung, Daisy  W., Borek, Dominika, Luthra, Priya, Binning, Jennifer  M., Anantpadma, Manu, Liu, Gai, Harvey, Ian B., Su, Zhaoming, Endlich-Frazier, Ariel, Pan, Juanli, Shabman, Reed  S., Chiu, Wah, Davey, Robert  A., Otwinowski, Zbyszek, Basler, Christopher  F., & Amarasinghe, Gaya  K. An intrinsically disordered peptide from Ebola virus VP35 controls viral RNA synthesis by modulating nucleoprotein-RNA interactions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.034
Leung, Daisy  W., Borek, Dominika, Luthra, Priya, Binning, Jennifer  M., Anantpadma, Manu, Liu, Gai, Harvey, Ian B., Su, Zhaoming, Endlich-Frazier, Ariel, Pan, Juanli, Shabman, Reed  S., Chiu, Wah, Davey, Robert  A., Otwinowski, Zbyszek, Basler, Christopher  F., and Amarasinghe, Gaya  K. Wed . "An intrinsically disordered peptide from Ebola virus VP35 controls viral RNA synthesis by modulating nucleoprotein-RNA interactions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.034. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1188738.
@article{osti_1188738,
title = {An intrinsically disordered peptide from Ebola virus VP35 controls viral RNA synthesis by modulating nucleoprotein-RNA interactions},
author = {Leung, Daisy  W. and Borek, Dominika and Luthra, Priya and Binning, Jennifer  M. and Anantpadma, Manu and Liu, Gai and Harvey, Ian B. and Su, Zhaoming and Endlich-Frazier, Ariel and Pan, Juanli and Shabman, Reed  S. and Chiu, Wah and Davey, Robert  A. and Otwinowski, Zbyszek and Basler, Christopher  F. and Amarasinghe, Gaya  K.},
abstractNote = {During viral RNA synthesis, Ebola virus (EBOV) nucleoprotein (NP) alternates between an RNA-template-bound form and a template-free form to provide the viral polymerase access to the RNA template. In addition, newly synthesized NP must be prevented from indiscriminately binding to noncognate RNAs. Here, we investigate the molecular bases for these critical processes. We identify an intrinsically disordered peptide derived from EBOV VP35 (NPBP, residues 20–48) that binds NP with high affinity and specificity, inhibits NP oligomerization, and releases RNA from NP-RNA complexes in vitro. The structure of the NPBP/ΔNPNTD complex, solved to 3.7 Å resolution, reveals how NPBP peptide occludes a large surface area that is important for NP-NP and NP-RNA interactions and for viral RNA synthesis. Together, our results identify a highly conserved viral interface that is important for EBOV replication and can be targeted for therapeutic development.},
doi = {10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.034},
journal = {Cell Reports},
number = 3,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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