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JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY
卷 84, 期 2, 页码 1097-1109出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01662-09
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- National Institutes of Health-University of Oxford
- National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institutes of Health
- NIH AID [AI059136]
- MRC [G0801508, G0400720, MC_U137881015] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MC_U137881015, G0801508, G0400720] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0507-10303] Funding Source: researchfish
The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) contains eight open reading frames (ORFs) that encode novel proteins. These accessory proteins are dispensable for in vitro and in vivo replication and thus may be important for other aspects of virus-host interactions. We investigated the functions of the largest of the accessory proteins, the ORF 3a protein, using a 3a-deficient strain of SARS-CoV. Cell death of Vero cells after infection with SARS-CoV was reduced upon deletion of ORF 3a. Electron microscopy of infected cells revealed a role for ORF 3a in SARS-CoV induced vesicle formation, a prominent feature of cells from SARS patients. In addition, we report that ORF 3a is both necessary and sufficient for SARS-CoV-induced Golgi fragmentation and that the 3a protein accumulates and localizes to vesicles containing markers for late endosomes. Finally, overexpression of ADP-ribosylation factor 1 (Arf1), a small GTPase essential for the maintenance of the Golgi apparatus, restored Golgi morphology during infection. These results establish an important role for ORF 3a in SARS-CoV-induced cell death, Golgi fragmentation, and the accumulation of intracellular vesicles.
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