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RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, referred to as RdRP) encoded by RNA viruses is a unique type of nucleic acid polymerase that plays a central role in viral genome replication and transcription and is a hot target for antiviral drug research.
Virus RdRP can be fused with other functional domains or co-folded with other viral proteins, and its overall structural diversity is high, but the three-dimensional structure of its catalytic core region is relatively conservative, so RdRP has both diversity and conservation.
Because the host range of RNA viruses includes almost all cell forms of life, in the process of co-evolution with different hosts, RdRP is the most conserved protein of RNA viruses, and the relationship between it and the adaptability of the virus to the host is not clear.
Flaviviruses include Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), etc.
Human pathogens are a kind of single-stranded positive-stranded RNA viruses with a wide distribution and a wide variety of species.
They belong to the Flaviviridae family together with hepatitis C virus and classical swine fever virus.
Flaviviruses are mostly spread by blood-sucking arthropods such as mosquitoes and ticks, which can cause human encephalitis or hemorrhagic diseases, posing a major threat to human health.
The RdRP of flavivirus is located at the carboxyl end of the virus-encoded non-structural protein NS5 and forms a natural fusion with the amino-terminal methyltransferase (MTase).
Previously, there have been several reports on the three-dimensional structure of NS5 of mosquito-borne flavivirus, including the structure of the full-length protein, MTase region and RdRP region, while the full-length structure of the NS5 protein of tick-borne flavivirus and the three-dimensional structure of RdRP have not been resolved.
Gong Peng’s team, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has long been engaged in the study of the catalysis and regulation mechanism of viral RdRP.
Previously, they have resolved the NS5 full-length protein crystal structures of JEV and DENV respectively (Lu and Gong, PLoS Pathogens 2013; Wu et al.
, PLoS Pathogens 2020), and in collaboration with the team of Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Zhang Bo, systematically revealed the conformational diversity and conservation of NS5 and the molecular mechanism of MTase regulating RdRP (Li et al.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2014; Wu, et al.
Journal of Virology 2015; Wu et al.
, PLoS Pathogens 2020).
Researchers have recently analyzed the crystal structure of TBEV MTase with a resolution of 1.
9 angstroms (PDB number 7D6M, Figure 1A) and the crystal structure of TBEV RdRP with a resolution of 3.
2 angstroms (PDB number 7D6N, Figure 1B), and obtained the first tick transmission.
Three-dimensional structure information of the flavivirus RdRP.
Through sequence analysis of the flavivirus RdRP and comparison with the structure of the known mosquito-borne flavivirus RdRP, it is found that there is a region of concern between the conservative catalytic motifs (motif) B and C of RdRP (hereinafter referred to as the BC link Area).
This area is located at the bottom of the palm area of RdRP and exposed on the surface of the protein, and has obvious host-related diversity in different host classifications of the Flavivirus (Figure 1B and Figure 2).
The study designed a substitution mutation in the BC junction region between TBEV and JEV virus, and confirmed at the enzymatic level that the mutation does not have an essential effect on the catalytic function of RdRP (Figure 3A, B).
Gong Peng’s team worked with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers Wang Hanzhong/Zheng Zhenhua’s team and Zhang Bo’s team to evaluate the effects of mutations on TBEV and JEV at the cellular level.
The study showed that the mutated viruses in the two virus systems could not maintain cell proliferation (Figure 3C, D).
These results suggest that the BC junction region may be involved in important processes related to virus proliferation other than RdRP catalysis.
By systematically analyzing the structure and sequence of the BC junction region of the representative RdRP in positive-strand, negative-strand and double-stranded RNA viruses, it is found that this region has a high diversity in structure and sequence length in the large family of RNA viruses (Figure 4), suggesting that the BC junction region of RdRP is likely to be a host adaptation hotspot shared by RNA viruses.
This study provides important clues for the study of the regulatory mechanism of viral RdRP and the study of RdRP-related host adaptation.
The research work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program "Study on the Co-infection and Co-pathogenic Mechanism of Important Livestock and Poultry Pathogens" (the project leader is Ding Chan, a researcher at the Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) and a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Doctoral student Yang Jieyu of Wuhan Institute of Virology and postdoctoral fellow Jing Xuping are the co-first authors of the paper.
They mainly completed the structure and enzymology research.
Gong Peng, Zheng Zhenhua and Zhang Bo are the co-corresponding authors of the paper.
Wang Hanzhong/Zheng Zhenhua’s team is the experimenter Yi Wenfu, master student Yao Chen, and Zhang Bo’s postdoctoral fellow Li Xiaodan completed TBEV and JEV virology research work respectively.
Related research results were published online in Nucleic Acids Research ("Nucleic Acids Research").
Figure 1.
The crystal structure of TBEV MTase and RdRP.
(A) A methyl donor SAM molecule is incorporated in the MTase structure.
(B) RdRP is composed of three structural domains: thumb, finger and palm.
The BC junction area (light pink) is located at the bottom of the palm area.
Figure 2.
The structure and sequence diversity of the BC junction region in the Flaviviridae RdRPs.
(A) TBEV in the first row belongs to tick-borne flavivirus, and the rest belong to mosquito-borne flavivirus.
In the second row, TBEV and JEV belong to the genus Flavivirus, while HCV and CSFV belong to the genus Hepatitis virus and Pestivirus in the Flaviviridae, respectively.
Among them, motif B, BC connection area and motif C are represented by yellow, orange and light green respectively.
(B) Sequence alignment of the BC region in flavivirus NS5.
According to different hosts, flaviviruses can be divided into four types: mosquito-borne, tick-borne, only transmitted in insects, and only transmitted in vertebrates.
Figure 3.
Replacement mutations in the BC junction region between virus species affect virus proliferation.
(A) (B) The TBEV NS5 with the JEV sequence replaced by the junction region exhibits primer-dependent (A) and de novo synthesis (B) activities similar to wild-type polymerase.
(C) (D) At the cellular level, neither TBEV nor JEV replacement mutants can achieve virus proliferation.
Figure 4.
The BC junction region of the viral RdRP shows high diversity.
The upper, middle and lower three rows are respectively the connecting region structure of the representative RdRP of positive strand, negative strand and double-stranded RNA virus.
Each colored structure represents a RNA virus family.
The BC connection area is displayed in orange.
On the left is a multi-structure overlay (gray).
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Virus RdRP can be fused with other functional domains or co-folded with other viral proteins, and its overall structural diversity is high, but the three-dimensional structure of its catalytic core region is relatively conservative, so RdRP has both diversity and conservation.
Because the host range of RNA viruses includes almost all cell forms of life, in the process of co-evolution with different hosts, RdRP is the most conserved protein of RNA viruses, and the relationship between it and the adaptability of the virus to the host is not clear.
Flaviviruses include Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), dengue virus (DENV), Zika virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), etc.
Human pathogens are a kind of single-stranded positive-stranded RNA viruses with a wide distribution and a wide variety of species.
They belong to the Flaviviridae family together with hepatitis C virus and classical swine fever virus.
Flaviviruses are mostly spread by blood-sucking arthropods such as mosquitoes and ticks, which can cause human encephalitis or hemorrhagic diseases, posing a major threat to human health.
The RdRP of flavivirus is located at the carboxyl end of the virus-encoded non-structural protein NS5 and forms a natural fusion with the amino-terminal methyltransferase (MTase).
Previously, there have been several reports on the three-dimensional structure of NS5 of mosquito-borne flavivirus, including the structure of the full-length protein, MTase region and RdRP region, while the full-length structure of the NS5 protein of tick-borne flavivirus and the three-dimensional structure of RdRP have not been resolved.
Gong Peng’s team, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has long been engaged in the study of the catalysis and regulation mechanism of viral RdRP.
Previously, they have resolved the NS5 full-length protein crystal structures of JEV and DENV respectively (Lu and Gong, PLoS Pathogens 2013; Wu et al.
, PLoS Pathogens 2020), and in collaboration with the team of Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Zhang Bo, systematically revealed the conformational diversity and conservation of NS5 and the molecular mechanism of MTase regulating RdRP (Li et al.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 2014; Wu, et al.
Journal of Virology 2015; Wu et al.
, PLoS Pathogens 2020).
Researchers have recently analyzed the crystal structure of TBEV MTase with a resolution of 1.
9 angstroms (PDB number 7D6M, Figure 1A) and the crystal structure of TBEV RdRP with a resolution of 3.
2 angstroms (PDB number 7D6N, Figure 1B), and obtained the first tick transmission.
Three-dimensional structure information of the flavivirus RdRP.
Through sequence analysis of the flavivirus RdRP and comparison with the structure of the known mosquito-borne flavivirus RdRP, it is found that there is a region of concern between the conservative catalytic motifs (motif) B and C of RdRP (hereinafter referred to as the BC link Area).
This area is located at the bottom of the palm area of RdRP and exposed on the surface of the protein, and has obvious host-related diversity in different host classifications of the Flavivirus (Figure 1B and Figure 2).
The study designed a substitution mutation in the BC junction region between TBEV and JEV virus, and confirmed at the enzymatic level that the mutation does not have an essential effect on the catalytic function of RdRP (Figure 3A, B).
Gong Peng’s team worked with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers Wang Hanzhong/Zheng Zhenhua’s team and Zhang Bo’s team to evaluate the effects of mutations on TBEV and JEV at the cellular level.
The study showed that the mutated viruses in the two virus systems could not maintain cell proliferation (Figure 3C, D).
These results suggest that the BC junction region may be involved in important processes related to virus proliferation other than RdRP catalysis.
By systematically analyzing the structure and sequence of the BC junction region of the representative RdRP in positive-strand, negative-strand and double-stranded RNA viruses, it is found that this region has a high diversity in structure and sequence length in the large family of RNA viruses (Figure 4), suggesting that the BC junction region of RdRP is likely to be a host adaptation hotspot shared by RNA viruses.
This study provides important clues for the study of the regulatory mechanism of viral RdRP and the study of RdRP-related host adaptation.
The research work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program "Study on the Co-infection and Co-pathogenic Mechanism of Important Livestock and Poultry Pathogens" (the project leader is Ding Chan, a researcher at the Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) and a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Doctoral student Yang Jieyu of Wuhan Institute of Virology and postdoctoral fellow Jing Xuping are the co-first authors of the paper.
They mainly completed the structure and enzymology research.
Gong Peng, Zheng Zhenhua and Zhang Bo are the co-corresponding authors of the paper.
Wang Hanzhong/Zheng Zhenhua’s team is the experimenter Yi Wenfu, master student Yao Chen, and Zhang Bo’s postdoctoral fellow Li Xiaodan completed TBEV and JEV virology research work respectively.
Related research results were published online in Nucleic Acids Research ("Nucleic Acids Research").
Figure 1.
The crystal structure of TBEV MTase and RdRP.
(A) A methyl donor SAM molecule is incorporated in the MTase structure.
(B) RdRP is composed of three structural domains: thumb, finger and palm.
The BC junction area (light pink) is located at the bottom of the palm area.
Figure 2.
The structure and sequence diversity of the BC junction region in the Flaviviridae RdRPs.
(A) TBEV in the first row belongs to tick-borne flavivirus, and the rest belong to mosquito-borne flavivirus.
In the second row, TBEV and JEV belong to the genus Flavivirus, while HCV and CSFV belong to the genus Hepatitis virus and Pestivirus in the Flaviviridae, respectively.
Among them, motif B, BC connection area and motif C are represented by yellow, orange and light green respectively.
(B) Sequence alignment of the BC region in flavivirus NS5.
According to different hosts, flaviviruses can be divided into four types: mosquito-borne, tick-borne, only transmitted in insects, and only transmitted in vertebrates.
Figure 3.
Replacement mutations in the BC junction region between virus species affect virus proliferation.
(A) (B) The TBEV NS5 with the JEV sequence replaced by the junction region exhibits primer-dependent (A) and de novo synthesis (B) activities similar to wild-type polymerase.
(C) (D) At the cellular level, neither TBEV nor JEV replacement mutants can achieve virus proliferation.
Figure 4.
The BC junction region of the viral RdRP shows high diversity.
The upper, middle and lower three rows are respectively the connecting region structure of the representative RdRP of positive strand, negative strand and double-stranded RNA virus.
Each colored structure represents a RNA virus family.
The BC connection area is displayed in orange.
On the left is a multi-structure overlay (gray).
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The big cow who reversed type 2 diabetes has published another article: type 2 diabetes is a simple disease, lose weight or reverse the condition! 2.
Just now, Science released the top ten scientific breakthroughs in 2019! 3.
Science is heavy! Broccoli "awakens" anti-tumor genes 4.
Readers' tears! "The Lancet" published a Chinese medical doctor's "Family Letter" in Chinese: A Letter to Father 5.
"Science" is heavy! Your "honey", my "arsenic.
.
.
" 6.
Drink alcohol, especially those who are still blushing, or face a higher risk of dementia 7.
Nature is heavy! The first completely synthetic creature that completely changed the DNA code was born 8.
This is not a big hazelnut! Science has published a new type of oral insulin, or it will replace traditional injections 9.
Science's anti-balding tips: start with no hair loss.
.
.
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