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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 117, Issue 12, Pages 6550-6558Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920582117
Keywords
conformational dynamics; influenza virus; nonstructural protein 1
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health [R01GM127723]
- NIGMS [P41 GM111244]
- US Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research [KP1605010]
- NIH [S10 OD012331]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0012704]
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The 1918 influenza A virus (IAV) caused the most severe flu pandemic in recorded human history. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is an important virulence factor of the 1918 IAV. NS1 antagonizes host defense mechanisms through interactions with multiple host factors. One pathway by which NS1 increases virulence is through the activation of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) by binding to its p85 beta subunit. Here we present the mechanism underlying the molecular recognition of the p85 beta subunit by 1918 NS1. Using X-ray crystallography, we determine the structure of 1918 NS1 complexed with p85 beta of human PI3K. We find that the 1918 NS1 effector domain (1918 NS1(ED)) undergoes a conformational change to bind p85 beta. Using NMR relaxation dispersion and molecular dynamics simulation, we identify that free 1918 NS1(ED) exists in a dynamic equilibrium between p85 beta-binding-competent and -incompetent conformations in the sub-millisecond timescale. Moreover, we discover that NS1(ED) proteins of 1918 (H1N1) and Udorn (H3N2) strains exhibit drastically different conformational dynamics and binding kinetics to p85 beta. These results provide evidence of strain-dependent conformational dynamics of NS1. Using kinetic modeling based on the experimental data, we demonstrate that 1918 NS1(ED) can result in the faster hijacking of p85 beta compared to Ud NS1(ED), although the former has a lower affinity to p85 beta than the latter. Our results suggest that the difference in binding kinetics may impact the competition with cellular antiviral responses for the activation of PI3K. We anticipate that our findings will increase the understanding of the strain-dependent behaviors of influenza NS1 proteins.
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