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NEDDylation of PB2 Reduces Its Stability and Blocks the Replication of Influenza A Virus

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Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 2;7:43691. doi: 10.1038/srep43691.
[h=1]NEDDylation of PB2 Reduces Its Stability and Blocks the Replication of Influenza A Virus.[/h] Zhang T[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Ye Z[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]3[/SUP], Yang X[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2,[/SUP][SUP]4[/SUP], Qin Y[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Hu Y[SUP]1[/SUP], Tong X[SUP]1[/SUP], Lai W[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]2[/SUP], Ye X[SUP]1,[/SUP][SUP]5[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Post-translational modifications of viral proteins play important roles in regulating viral replication. Here we demonstrated that the PB2 of influenza A virus (IAV) can be modified by NEDD8. We revealed that E3 ligase HDM2 can promote PB2 NEDDylation. Overexpression of either NEDD8 or HDM2 can inhibit IAV replication, while knockdown of HDM2 has the opposite effect. Then we identified residue K699 in PB2 as the major NEDDylation site. We found that NEDDylation deficient PB2 mutant (PB2 K699R) has a longer half-life than wild-type PB2, indicating that NEDDylation of PB2 reduces its stability. We generated an IAV mutant in which PB2 was mutated to PB2 K699R (WSN-PB2 K699R) and examined the replication of WSN and WSN-PB2 K699R viruses in both MDCK and A549 cells and found that the replication of WSN-PB2 K699R was more efficient than wild-type WSN. In addition, we observed that overexpression of NEDD8 significantly inhibited the replication of WSN, but not WSN-PB2 K699R. The infection assay in mice showed that WSN-PB2 K699R exhibited enhanced virulence in mice compared to WSN, suggesting that NEDDylation of PB2 reduced IAV replication in vivo. In conclusion, we demonstrated that NEDDylation of PB2 by HDM2 negatively regulates IAV infection.


PMID: 28252002 DOI: 10.1038/srep43691
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