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MBIO
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01698-22
关键词
rubella virus; fusion; hemifusion; sphingomyelin; CRISPR; Cas9; membrane fusion
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资金
- Grants for Joint Research Projects of the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
- AMED-CREST [20gm0910005]
- AMED [22fk0108617]
- MEXT KAKENHI [JP17H06417]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP21H02630, JP22K09586]
Infection with rubella virus during pregnancy can lead to congenital rubella syndrome in infants. This study provides important insights into the detailed mechanisms of rubella virus cell entry, highlighting the critical role of sphingomyelin synthase 1 (SMS1) in this process, which has significant implications for the prevention and treatment of rubella virus infections.
Infection with rubella virus during pregnancy causes congenital rubella syndrome in infants. Despite its importance in public health, the detailed mechanisms of rubella virus cell entry have only recently become somewhat clearer. The lipid composition of the host cell membrane is one of the key determinants of the entry of enveloped viruses into cells. To elucidate the detailed mechanisms behind the cell entry of rubella virus (RuV), one of the enveloped viruses, we searched for host factors involved in such entry by using CRISPR/Cas9 genome-wide knockout screening, and we found sphingomyelin synthase 1 (SMS1), encoded by the SGMS1 gene, as a candidate. RuV growth was strictly suppressed in SGMS1-knockout cells and was completely recovered by the overexpression of enzymatically active SMS1 and partially recovered by that of SMS2, another member of the SMS family, but not by that of enzymatically inactive SMS1. An entry assay using pseudotyped vesicular stomatitis virus possessing RuV envelope proteins revealed that sphingomyelin generated by SMSs is crucial for at least RuV entry. In SGMS1-knockout cells, lipid mixing between the RuV envelope membrane and the membrane of host cells occurred, but entry of the RuV genome from the viral particles into the cytoplasm was strongly inhibited. This indicates that sphingomyelin produced by SMSs is essential for the formation of membrane pores after hemifusion occurs during RuV entry.IMPORTANCE Infection with rubella virus during pregnancy causes congenital rubella syndrome in infants. Despite its importance in public health, the detailed mechanisms of rubella virus cell entry have only recently become somewhat clearer. The E1 protein of rubella virus is classified as a class II fusion protein based on its structural similarity, but it has the unique feature that its activity is dependent on calcium ion binding in the fusion loops. In this study, we found another unique feature, as cellular sphingomyelin plays a critical role in the penetration of the nucleocapsid into the cytoplasm after hemifusion by rubella virus. This provides important insight into the entry mechanism of rubella virus. This study also presents a model of hemifusion arrest during cell entry by an intact virus, providing a useful tool for analyzing membrane fusion, a biologically important phenomenon.
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