A viral member of the ERV1/ALR protein family participates in a cytoplasmic pathway of disulfide bond formation

被引:122
作者
Senkevich, TG
White, CL
Koonin, EV
Moss, B
机构
[1] NIAID, Viral Dis Lab, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
[2] Natl Lib Med, Natl Ctr Biotechnol Informat, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA
关键词
poxvirus; vaccinia virus; thiol oxidoreductase; glutaredoxin;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.210397997
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Proteins of the ERV1/ALR family are encoded by all eukaryotes and cytoplasmic DNA viruses for which substantial sequence information is available. Nevertheless, the roles of these proteins are imprecisely known. Multiple alignments of ERV1/ALR proteins indicated an invariant C-X-X-C motif, but no similarity to the thioredoxin fold was revealed by secondary structure predictions. We chose a virus model to investigate the role of these proteins as thiol oxidoreductases. When cells were infected with a mutant vaccinia virus in which the E10R gene encoding an ERV1/ALR family protein was repressed, the disulfide bonds of three other viral proteins-namely, the L1R and F9L proteins and the G4L glutaredoxin-were completely reduced. The same outcome occurred when Cys-43 or Cys-46, the putative redox cysteines of the E10R protein, was mutated to serine. These two cysteines were disulfide bonded during a normal virus infection but not if the synthesis of other viral late proteins was inhibited or the E10R protein was expressed by itself in uninfected cells, suggesting a requirement for an upstream viral thiol oxidoreductase. Remarkably, the cysteine-containing domains of the E10R and L1R viral membrane proteins and the glutaredoxin are in the cytoplasm, in which assembly of vaccinia virions occurs, rather than in the oxidizing environment of the endoplasmic reticulum, These data indicated a viral pathway of disulfide bond formation in which the E10R protein has a central role. By extension, the ERV1/ALR family may represent a ubiquitous class of cellular thiol oxidoreductases that interact with glutaredoxins or thioredoxins.
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页码:12068 / 12073
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