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Human cytomegalovirus interactome analysis identifies degradation hubs, domain associations and viral protein functions.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Ravenhill, Benjamin J 
Antrobus, Robin 

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) extensively modulates host cells, downregulating >900 human proteins during viral replication and degrading ≥133 proteins shortly after infection. The mechanism of degradation of most host proteins remains unresolved, and the functions of many viral proteins are incompletely characterised. We performed a mass spectrometry-based interactome analysis of 169 tagged, stably-expressed canonical strain Merlin HCMV proteins, and two non-canonical HCMV proteins, in infected cells. This identified a network of >3400 virus-host and >150 virus-virus protein interactions, providing insights into functions for multiple viral genes. Domain analysis predicted binding of the viral UL25 protein to SH3 domains of NCK Adaptor Protein-1. Viral interacting proteins were identified for 31/133 degraded host targets. Finally, the uncharacterised, non-canonical ORFL147C protein was found to interact with elements of the mRNA splicing machinery, and a mutational study suggested its importance in viral replication. The interactome data will be important for future studies of herpesvirus infection.

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Keywords

computational biology, host-pathogen interaction, human, human cytomegalovirus, immune evasion, infectious disease, microbiology, protein-protein interaction, proteomics, systems biology, systems virology, virus, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Cytomegalovirus, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Gene Expression Regulation, Viral, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Humans, Oncogene Proteins, Proteomics, RNA Splicing, RNA, Messenger, Viral Proteins, Virus Replication

Journal Title

Elife

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Journal ISSN

2050-084X
2050-084X

Volume Title

8

Publisher

eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd

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All rights reserved
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (108070/Z/15/Z)
Evelyn Trust (18/27)
Wellcome Trust, MRC