1. Tombusviruses upregulate phospholipid biosynthesis via interaction between p33 replication protein and yeast lipid sensor proteins during virus replication in yeast.
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Barajas D, Xu K, Sharma M, Wu CY, and Nagy PD
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- Fungal Proteins genetics, Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal physiology, Gene Expression Regulation, Viral physiology, Plasmids genetics, Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolism, Up-Regulation, Viral Proteins genetics, Fungal Proteins metabolism, Phospholipids biosynthesis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae virology, Tombusvirus physiology, Viral Proteins metabolism, Virus Replication physiology
- Abstract
Positive-stranded RNA viruses induce new membranous structures and promote membrane proliferation in infected cells to facilitate viral replication. In this paper, the authors show that a plant-infecting tombusvirus upregulates transcription of phospholipid biosynthesis genes, such as INO1, OPI3 and CHO1, and increases phospholipid levels in yeast model host. This is accomplished by the viral p33 replication protein, which interacts with Opi1p FFAT domain protein and Scs2p VAP protein. Opi1p and Scs2p are phospholipid sensor proteins and they repress the expression of phospholipid genes. Accordingly, deletion of OPI1 transcription repressor in yeast has a stimulatory effect on TBSV RNA accumulation and enhanced tombusvirus replicase activity in an in vitro assay. Altogether, the presented data convincingly demonstrate that de novo lipid biosynthesis is required for optimal TBSV replication. Overall, this work reveals that a (+)RNA virus reprograms the phospholipid biosynthesis pathway in a unique way to facilitate its replication in yeast cells., (Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2014
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