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The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities
African swine fever virus is complex DNA virus that infects pigs with mortality rates up to 100% leading to devastating socioeconomic effected in the affected countries. There is neither a vaccine nor a treatment to control ASF. African swine fever virus genome encodes two putative SF2 RNA helicases...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1578624 |
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author | Freitas, Ferdinando B. Frouco, Gonçalo Martins, Carlos Ferreira, Fernando |
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description | African swine fever virus is complex DNA virus that infects pigs with mortality rates up to 100% leading to devastating socioeconomic effected in the affected countries. There is neither a vaccine nor a treatment to control ASF. African swine fever virus genome encodes two putative SF2 RNA helicases (QP509L and Q706L). In the present study, we found that these two RNA helicases do not share a common ancestral besides sharing a sequence overlap. Although, our phylogenetic studies revealed that they are conserved among virulent and non-virulent isolates, it was possible to observe a degree of variation between isolates corresponding to different genotypes occurring in distinct geographic regions. Further experiments showed that QP509L and Q706L are actively transcribed from 4 h post infection. The immunoblot analysis revealed that both protein co-localized in the viral factories at 12 h post infection, however, QP509L was also detected in the cell nucleus. Finally, siRNA assays uncover the relevant role of these proteins during viral cycle progression, in particular, for the late transcription, genome replication, and viral progeny (a reduction of infectious particles up to 99.4% when siRNA against QP509L was used and 98.4% for siRNA against Q706L). Thus, our results suggest that both helicases are essential during viral infection, highlighting the potential use of these enzymes as target for drug and vaccine development against African swine fever. |
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spelling | pubmed-64551462019-04-18 The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities Freitas, Ferdinando B. Frouco, Gonçalo Martins, Carlos Ferreira, Fernando Emerg Microbes Infect Article African swine fever virus is complex DNA virus that infects pigs with mortality rates up to 100% leading to devastating socioeconomic effected in the affected countries. There is neither a vaccine nor a treatment to control ASF. African swine fever virus genome encodes two putative SF2 RNA helicases (QP509L and Q706L). In the present study, we found that these two RNA helicases do not share a common ancestral besides sharing a sequence overlap. Although, our phylogenetic studies revealed that they are conserved among virulent and non-virulent isolates, it was possible to observe a degree of variation between isolates corresponding to different genotypes occurring in distinct geographic regions. Further experiments showed that QP509L and Q706L are actively transcribed from 4 h post infection. The immunoblot analysis revealed that both protein co-localized in the viral factories at 12 h post infection, however, QP509L was also detected in the cell nucleus. Finally, siRNA assays uncover the relevant role of these proteins during viral cycle progression, in particular, for the late transcription, genome replication, and viral progeny (a reduction of infectious particles up to 99.4% when siRNA against QP509L was used and 98.4% for siRNA against Q706L). Thus, our results suggest that both helicases are essential during viral infection, highlighting the potential use of these enzymes as target for drug and vaccine development against African swine fever. Taylor & Francis 2019-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6455146/ /pubmed/30866783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1578624 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Article Freitas, Ferdinando B. Frouco, Gonçalo Martins, Carlos Ferreira, Fernando The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title | The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title_full | The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title_fullStr | The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title_full_unstemmed | The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title_short | The QP509L and Q706L superfamily II RNA helicases of African swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
title_sort | qp509l and q706l superfamily ii rna helicases of african swine fever virus are required for viral replication, having non-redundant activities |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6455146/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30866783 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2019.1578624 |
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