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VIROLOGY
Volume 307, Issue 2, Pages 386-395Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6822(02)00127-7
Keywords
influenza A virus; NS1A protein; posttranscriptional regulation of cellular gene expression; IFN-independent cellular antiviral response; IFN production; CPSF
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI49640, AI11772] Funding Source: Medline
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The influenza A virus NS I protein (NS I A protein) binds and inhibits the function of the 30-kDa subunit of CPSF, a cellular factor that is required for the 3'-end processing of cellular pre-mRNAs. Here we generate a recombinant influenza A/Udorn/72 virus that encodes an NS1A protein containing a mutated binding site for the 30-kDa subunit of CPSF. This mutant virus is substantially attenuated, indicating that this binding site in the NS1A protein is required for efficient virus replication. Using this mutant virus, we show that NS1A binding to CPSF mediates the viral posttranscriptional countermeasure against the initial cellular antiviral response-the interferon-alpha/beta (IFN-alpha/beta)-independent activation of the transcription of cellular antiviral genes, which requires the interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF-3) transcription factor that is activated by virus infection. Whereas the posttranscriptional processing of these cellular antiviral pre-mRNAs is inhibited in cells infected by wild-type influenza A virus, functional antiviral mRNAs are produced in cells infected by the mutant virus. These results establish that the binding of 30-kDa CPSF to the NS 1 A protein is largely responsible for the posuranscriptional inhibition of the processing of these cellular antiviral pre-mRNAs. Mutation of this binding site in the NS 1 A protein also affects a second cellular antiviral response: in cells infected by the mutant virus, IFN-beta mRNA is produced earlier and in larger amounts. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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