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Interactions of Vank proteins from Microplitis bicoloratus bracovirus with host Dip3 suppress eIF4E expression
Developmental & Comparative Immunology ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-05 , DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2021.103994
Qiu-Chen Cai 1 , Chang-Xu Chen 1 , Hong-Yu Liu 1 , Wei Zhang 1 , Yun-Feng Han 1 , Qi Zhang 1 , Gui-Fang Zhou 1 , Sha Xu 2 , Tian Liu 3 , Wei Xiao 4 , Qi-Shun Zhu 4 , Kai-Jun Luo 1
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Microplitis bicoloratus bracovirus (MbBV) inhibits the immune response of the host Spodoptera litura by disrupting nuclear factor (NF)-κB signaling and downstream gene expression. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms are not well understood. Herein, we report that viral ankyrin (Vank) proteins interacted with host dorsal-interacting protein 3 (Dip3) to selectively inhibit the transcription of eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4 E (eIF4E). Dip3 and Vank proteins were co-expressed and colocalized in the nucleus. Furthermore, ectopic expression of Dip3 rescued the transcription of some NF-κB-dependent genes suppressed by Vank proteins, including eIF4E. Co-immunoprecipitation and pull-down assays confirmed that Vank proteins interacted with and bound to full-length Dip3, which including MADF, DNA-binding protein, BESS, and protein-protein interaction motifs as well as non-motif sequences. In vivo, RNAi-mediated dip3 silencing decreased eIF4E levels and was accompanied by an immunosuppressive phenotype in S. litura. Our results provided novel insights into the regulation of host transcription during immune suppression by viral proteins that modulate nuclear NF-κB signaling.

更新日期:2021-01-10
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