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JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY
卷 88, 期 -, 页码 1656-1666出版社
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82772-0
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- Medical Research Council [G0501257, G0500365] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G0500365, G0501257] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0501257, G0500365] Funding Source: UKRI
Vaccinia virus (VACV) encodes many immunomodulatory proteins, including inhibitors of apoptosis and modulators of innate immune signalling. VACV protein N1 is an intracellular homodimer that contributes to virus virulence and was reported to inhibit nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B signalling. However, analysis of NF-kappa B signalling in cells infected with recombinant viruses with or without the NIL gene showed no difference in NF-kappa B-dependent gene expression. Given that N1 promotes virus virulence, other possible functions of N1 were investigated and this revealed that N1 is an inhibitor of apoptosis in cells transfected with the N1L gene and in the context of VACV infection. In support of this finding virally expressed N1 co-precipitated with enclogenous pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 proteins Bid, Bad and Bax as well as with Bad and Bax expressed by transfection. In addition, the crystal structure of N1 was solved to 2.9 angstrom resolution (0.29 nm). Remarkably, although N1 shows no sequence similarity to cellular proteins, its three-dimensional structure closely resembles BCl-x(L) and other members of the Bcl-2 protein family. The structure also reveals that N1 has a constitutively open surface groove similar to the grooves of other anti-apoptotic BcI-2 proteins, which bind the BH3 motifs of pro-apoptotic BcI-2 family members. Molecular modelling of BH3 pepticles into the N1 surface groove, together with analysis of their physico-chemical properties, suggests a mechanism for the specificity of peptide recognition. This study illustrates the importance of the evolutionary conservation of structure, rather than sequence, in protein function and reveals a novel anti-apoptotic protein from ort hopoxviruses.
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