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The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids

The non-structural (NS) NS4A protein in flaviviruses has three predicted transmembrane domains, is critical for virulence and participates in membrane morphogenesis. In Dengue virus (DENV), both hydrophylic N-terminal tail and its first transmembrane domain participate in the formation of oligomers...

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Autores principales: Surya, Wahyu, Liu, Yiting, Torres, Jaume
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37147499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34621-x
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Liu, Yiting
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description The non-structural (NS) NS4A protein in flaviviruses has three predicted transmembrane domains, is critical for virulence and participates in membrane morphogenesis. In Dengue virus (DENV), both hydrophylic N-terminal tail and its first transmembrane domain participate in the formation of oligomers which are important for pathogenicity. However, the relative importance of the N-terminal domain in oligomerization has been under debate. In particular, since in the absence of detergent or lipids, this domain (residues 1–48) in both DENV and Zika virus (ZIKV) NS4A, was found to be disordered. Recently, however, we reported preliminary data that showed that peptide ZIKV NS4A 4–58 adopts a defined secondary structure in aqueous solution and forms oligomers, signaling its importance for full length NS4A oligomerization. Herein we have performed detailed analytical ultracentrifugation experiments to further characterize the oligomerization of this peptide and also a shorter variant (residues 4–44). In both cases, sedimentation velocity produced a single species with concentration-dependent sedimentation coefficient, consistent with a fast equilibrium between at least two species. Combining sedimentation velocity and equilibrium experiments, data is best fitted to a monomer–dimer–trimer equilibrium. Possible models of NS4A oligomers obtained with AlphaFold-2 predict the stabilizing role for residues in this N-terminal domain, such as Arg20, Asn27, Ala44 and Glu50, all at highly conserved positions in flavivirus NS4A proteins. Our results are thus consistent with N-terminal domain interactions acting as one of the driving forces for NS4A homo-oligomerization.
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spelling pubmed-101632202023-05-07 The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids Surya, Wahyu Liu, Yiting Torres, Jaume Sci Rep Article The non-structural (NS) NS4A protein in flaviviruses has three predicted transmembrane domains, is critical for virulence and participates in membrane morphogenesis. In Dengue virus (DENV), both hydrophylic N-terminal tail and its first transmembrane domain participate in the formation of oligomers which are important for pathogenicity. However, the relative importance of the N-terminal domain in oligomerization has been under debate. In particular, since in the absence of detergent or lipids, this domain (residues 1–48) in both DENV and Zika virus (ZIKV) NS4A, was found to be disordered. Recently, however, we reported preliminary data that showed that peptide ZIKV NS4A 4–58 adopts a defined secondary structure in aqueous solution and forms oligomers, signaling its importance for full length NS4A oligomerization. Herein we have performed detailed analytical ultracentrifugation experiments to further characterize the oligomerization of this peptide and also a shorter variant (residues 4–44). In both cases, sedimentation velocity produced a single species with concentration-dependent sedimentation coefficient, consistent with a fast equilibrium between at least two species. Combining sedimentation velocity and equilibrium experiments, data is best fitted to a monomer–dimer–trimer equilibrium. Possible models of NS4A oligomers obtained with AlphaFold-2 predict the stabilizing role for residues in this N-terminal domain, such as Arg20, Asn27, Ala44 and Glu50, all at highly conserved positions in flavivirus NS4A proteins. Our results are thus consistent with N-terminal domain interactions acting as one of the driving forces for NS4A homo-oligomerization. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-05-05 /pmc/articles/PMC10163220/ /pubmed/37147499 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34621-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
title_full The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
title_fullStr The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
title_full_unstemmed The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
title_short The cytoplasmic N-terminal tail of Zika virus NS4A protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
title_sort cytoplasmic n-terminal tail of zika virus ns4a protein forms oligomers in the absence of detergent or lipids
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10163220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37147499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34621-x
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