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Virology. 2016 Jul 26;497:146-156. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.07.017. [Epub ahead of print]
Caspase-mediated degradation of host cortactin that promotes influenza A virus infection in epithelial cells.
Chen DY1, Husain M2.
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Abstract
Influenza A virus (IAV) is well-known to exploit host factors to its advantage. Here, we report that IAV exploits host cortactin, an actin filament-stabilising protein for infection in epithelial cells. By using RNA interference-mediated knockdown and overexpression approach, we demonstrate that cortactin promotes IAV infection. However, cortactin polypeptide undergoes the degradation during late IAV infection. By perturbing the lysosome and proteasome, two main compartments governing the degradation of mammalian proteins, we demonstrate that a lysosome-associated apoptotic pathway mediates the degradation of cortactin in IAV-infected cells. However, we could not detect cleaved cortactin fragments by western blotting using the antibodies recognising either N-terminal/Central or C-terminal cortactin regions, which suggested the presence of multiple caspase cleavage sites. Indeed, CaspDB, a recently-described database predicted up to 35 caspase cleavage motifs present across cortactin polypeptide. The data presented indicate that host cortactin potentially has a dual but contrasting role during IAV infection.
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KEYWORDS:
Actin-binding protein; Actin-stabilising protein; Caspase; Cortactin; Influenza A virus; Lysosomal degradation
PMID: 27471953 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.07.017
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Caspase-mediated degradation of host cortactin that promotes influenza A virus infection in epithelial cells.
Chen DY1, Husain M2.
Author information
Abstract
Influenza A virus (IAV) is well-known to exploit host factors to its advantage. Here, we report that IAV exploits host cortactin, an actin filament-stabilising protein for infection in epithelial cells. By using RNA interference-mediated knockdown and overexpression approach, we demonstrate that cortactin promotes IAV infection. However, cortactin polypeptide undergoes the degradation during late IAV infection. By perturbing the lysosome and proteasome, two main compartments governing the degradation of mammalian proteins, we demonstrate that a lysosome-associated apoptotic pathway mediates the degradation of cortactin in IAV-infected cells. However, we could not detect cleaved cortactin fragments by western blotting using the antibodies recognising either N-terminal/Central or C-terminal cortactin regions, which suggested the presence of multiple caspase cleavage sites. Indeed, CaspDB, a recently-described database predicted up to 35 caspase cleavage motifs present across cortactin polypeptide. The data presented indicate that host cortactin potentially has a dual but contrasting role during IAV infection.
Copyright ? 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:
Actin-binding protein; Actin-stabilising protein; Caspase; Cortactin; Influenza A virus; Lysosomal degradation
PMID: 27471953 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.07.017
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]