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Translational adaptation of human viruses to the tissues they infect

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CELL REPORTS
卷 34, 期 11, 页码 -

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108872

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  1. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [PGC2018101271-B-I00]
  2. Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa
  3. CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya
  4. Fundacion Ramon Areces
  5. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN)

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When viruses infect different tissues, they adjust their translational machinery to adapt to the specific host environment; research shows that there is a correspondence between the codon usage of viruses and the translational machinery of their specific tropism; this correspondence is mainly seen in early viral proteins, and it could be useful for the development of antiviral therapies and vaccines.
Viruses need to hijack the translational machinery of the host cell for a productive infection to happen. However, given the dynamic landscape of tRNA pools among tissues, it is unclear whether different viruses infecting different tissues have adapted their codon usage toward their tropism. Here, we collect the coding sequences of 502 human-infecting viruses and determine that tropism explains changes in codon usage. Using the tRNA abundances across 23 human tissues from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), we build an in silico model of translational efficiency that validates the correspondence of the viral codon usage with the translational machinery of their tropism. For instance, we detect that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is specifically adapted to the upper respiratory tract and alveoli. Furthermore, this correspondence is specifically defined in early viral proteins. The observed tissue-specific translational efficiency could be useful for the development of antiviral therapies and vaccines.

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