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J Med Virol . Proliferating cell nuclear antigen impairs the nuclear import of influenza A virus PB2 and suppresses virus replication

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J Med Virol


. 2023 Jun;95(6):e28849.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.28849. Proliferating cell nuclear antigen impairs the nuclear import of influenza A virus PB2 and suppresses virus replication

Yuanbao Zhou[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shishuo Zhang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Biaoxiong Wang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ying Ran[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Shaoyu Tu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Zhipeng Lin[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Meilin Jin[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Huanchun Chen[SUP] 1 3 2 [/SUP], Jiahui Zou[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Hongbo Zhou[SUP] 1 3 2 4 [/SUP]



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Abstract

The genome of Influenza A virus (IAV) transcribes and replicates in the nucleus of cells and the viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complex plays an important role in viral replication. As a major component of the vRNP complex, the polymerase basic protein 2 (PB2) is translocated to the nucleus via its nuclear localization signals mediated by the importins. Herein, it was identified proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) as an inhibitor of nuclear import of PB2 and subsequent viral replication. Mechanically, PCNA interacted with PB2 and inhibited the nuclear import of PB2. Furthermore, PCNA decreased the binding efficiency of PB2 with importin alpha (importin α) and the K738, K752, and R755 of PB2 were identified as the key sites binding with PCNA and importin α. Furthermore, PCNA was demonstrated to retrain the vRNP assembly and polymerase activity. Taken together, the results demonstrated that PCNA impaired the nuclear import of PB2, vRNP assembly and polymerase activity, which negatively regulated virus replication.

Keywords: Influenza A virus; NLSs; PB2; PCNA; vRNP.

 
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