Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 116, Issue 48, Pages 24056-24065Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1904752116
Keywords
VPg; m(7) cap; potyvirus; translation; eIF4E
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- NIH [R01 CA80728, R01 CA98571]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [PJT159785]
- Canada Research Chair in Molecular Biology of the Cell Nucleus
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
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Viruses have transformed our understanding of mammalian RNA processing, including facilitating the discovery of the methyl-7-guanosine (m(7)G) cap on the 5' end of RNAs. The m(7)G cap is required for RNAs to bind the eukaryotic translation initiation factor eIF4E and associate with the translation machinery across plant and animal kingdoms. The potyvirus-derived viral genome-linked protein (VPg) is covalently bound to the 5' end of viral genomic RNA (gRNA) and associates with host eIF4E for successful infection. Divergent models to explain these observations proposed either an unknown mode of eIF4E engagement or a competition of VPg for the m(7)G cap-binding site. To dissect these possibilities, we resolved the structure of VPg, revealing a previously unknown 3-dimensional (3D) fold, and characterized the VPg-eIF4E complex using NMR and biophysical techniques. VPg directly bound the cap-binding site of eIF4E and competed for m(7)G cap analog binding. In human cells, VPg inhibited eIF4E-dependent RNA export, translation, and oncogenic transformation. Moreover, VPg formed trimeric complexes with eIF4E-eIF4G, eIF4E bound VPg-luciferase RNA conjugates, and these VPg-RNA conjugates were templates for translation. Informatic analyses revealed structural similarities between VPg and the human kinesin EGS. Consistently, EG5 directly bound eIF4E in a similar manner to VPg, demonstrating that this form of engagement is relevant beyond potyviruses. In all, we revealed an unprecedented modality for control and engagement of eIF4E and show that VPg-RNA conjugates functionally engage eIF4E. As such, potyvirus VPg provides a unique model system to interrogate eIF4E.
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