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NSP1

About: NSP1 is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 248 publications have been published within this topic receiving 12044 citations.


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25 Nov 2010-Virology
TL;DR: The results suggest that PRRSV Nsp1α is a multifunctional nuclear protein participating in the modulation of the host IFN system.

106 citations

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TL;DR: When mutations preventing nsP1 palmitoylation were introduced into the genomes of these two alphaviruses, the mutant viruses remained viable and replicated to high titers, although their growth was slightly delayed.
Abstract: The membrane-associated alphavirus RNA replication complex contains four virus-encoded subunits, the nonstructural proteins nsP1 to nsP4. Semliki Forest virus (SFV) nsP1 is hydrophobically modified by palmitoylation of cysteines 418 to 420. Here we show that Sindbis virus nsP1 is also palmitoylated on the same site (cysteine 420). When mutations preventing nsP1 palmitoylation were introduced into the genomes of these two alphaviruses, the mutant viruses remained viable and replicated to high titers, although their growth was slightly delayed. The subcellular distribution of palmitoylation-defective nsP1 was altered in the mutant: it no longer localized to filopodial extensions, and a fraction of it was soluble. The ultrastructure of the alphavirus replication sites appeared normal, and the localization of the other nonstructural proteins was unaltered in the mutants. In both wild-type- and mutant-virus-infected cells, SFV nsP3 and nsP4 could be extracted from membranes only by alkaline solutions whereas the nsP2-membrane association was looser. Thus, the membrane binding properties of the alphavirus RNA replication complex were not determined by the palmitoylation of nsP1. The nsP1 palmitoylation-defective alphaviruses produced normal plaques in several cell types, but failed to give rise to plaques in HeLa cells, although they induced normal apoptosis of these cells. The SFV mutant was apathogenic in mice: it caused blood viremia, but no infectious virus was detected in the brain.

96 citations

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TL;DR: Two nondefective bovine rotavirus mutants (A5-10 and A5-16 clones) which have nonsense mutations in the early portion of the open reading frame of the NSP1 gene replicated well in cultured cells, although the plaque size of A 5-16 was extremely small.
Abstract: We isolated two nondefective bovine rotavirus mutants (A5-10 and A5-16 clones) which have nonsense mutations in the early portion of the open reading frame of the NSP1 gene In the NSP1 gene (1,587 bases long) of A5-10, a nonsense codon is present at nucleotides 153 to 155 just upstream of the coding region (nucleotides 156 to 230) of a cysteine-rich Zn finger motif A5-16 gene 5 (1,087 bases long) was found to have a large deletion of 500 bases corresponding to nucleotides 142 to 641 of a parent A5-10 NSP1 gene and to have a nonsense codon at nucleotides 183 to 185, which resulted from the deletion Expression of gene 5-specific NSP1 could not be detected in MA-104 cells infected with the A5-10 or A5-16 clone or in an in vitro translation system using the plasmids with gene 5 cDNA from A5-10 or A5-16 Nevertheless, both A5-10 and A5-16 replicated well in cultured cells, although the plaque size of A5-16 was extremely small

92 citations

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TL;DR: Data from the B641 analyses that showIRF3 degradation is dependent on the presence of NSP1 and the integrity of the N-terminal zinc-binding domain, coupled with the regulated stability of IRF3 and NSP 1 by the proteasome, collectively support the hypothesis that N SP1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase.
Abstract: Interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) is a key transcription factor involved in the induction of interferon (IFN) in response to viral infection. Rotavirus non-structural protein NSP1 binds to and targets IRF3 for proteasome degradation early post-infection. Mutational analysis of cysteine and histidine residues within the conserved N-terminal zinc-binding domain in NSP1 of bovine rotavirus strain B641 abolished IRF3 degradation in transfected cells. Thus, the integrity of the zinc-binding domain in NSP1 is important for degradation of IRF3. In contrast to bovine strain B641, IRF3 was stable in cells infected with porcine rotavirus strain OSU and OSU NSP1 bound only weakly to IRF3. Both B641 NSP1 and OSU NSP1 were stabilized in cells or cell-free extracts in the presence of the proteasome inhibitor MG132 and when the zinc-binding domain was disrupted by site-directed mutagenesis. Data from the B641 analyses that show IRF3 degradation is dependent on the presence of NSP1 and the integrity of the N-terminal zinc-binding domain, coupled with the regulated stability of IRF3 and NSP1 by the proteasome, collectively support the hypothesis that NSP1 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase.

91 citations

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TL;DR: The kinetics of processing of the nonstructural proteins from their respective precursors in vivo, and the regulation of nsP4 function in Sindbis virus-infected cells may be even more complex than was previously thought, are examined.
Abstract: Plasmids were constructed which contained a large portion of each of the four nonstructural genes of Sindbis virus fused to the N-terminal two-thirds of the trpE gene of Escherichia coli. The large quantity of fusion protein induced from cells containing these plasmids was subsequently used as an antigen to generate polyclonal antisera in rabbits. Each antiserum was specific for the corresponding nonstructural protein and allowed ready identification of each nonstructural protein and of precursors containing the sequences of two or more nonstructural proteins. These antisera were used to determine the stability of the mature nonstructural proteins and to examine the kinetics of processing of the nonstructural proteins from their respective precursors in vivo. Pulse-chase experiments showed that the precursor P123 is cleaved with a half-life of approximately 19 min to produce P12 and nsP3; P12 is then cleaved with a half-life of approximately 9 min to produce nsP1 and nsP2. Thus, although the rate of cleavage between nsP1 and nsP2 is faster than that between nsP2 and nsP3, the latter cleavage must occur first and is therefore the rate-limiting step. The rate at which P34 is chased suggests that the cleavage between nsP3 and nsP4 is the last to occur; however the regulation of nsP4 function in Sindbis virus-infected cells may be even more complex than was previously thought. The products nsP1 and nsP2 (and nsP4) are relatively stable; nsP3, however, is unstable, with a half-life of about 1 h, and appears to be modified to produce heterodisperse, higher-molecular-mass forms. In general, the processing schemes used by Sindbis virus and Semliki Forest virus appear very similar, the major difference being that most nsP3 in Sindbis virus results from termination at an opal condon, whereas in Semliki Forest virus cleavage of the P34 precursor is required.

87 citations


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