Dataset Information

Structure of herpes simplex virus pUL7:pUL51, a conserved complex required for efficient herpesvirus assembly

ABSTRACT: Herpesviruses are an ancient family of highly-prevalent human and animal pathogens that acquire their membrane envelopes in the cytoplasm of infected cells. While multiple conserved viral proteins are known to be required for efficient herpesvirus production, many of these proteins lack identifiable structural homologues and the molecular details of herpesvirus assembly remain unclear. We have characterized the complex of assembly proteins pUL7 and pUL51 from herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1, an α-herpesvirus, using multi-angle light scattering and small-angle X-ray scattering with chemical crosslinking. HSV-1 pUL7 and pUL51 form a stable 1:2 complex that is capable of higher-order oligomerization in solution. We solved the crystal structure of this complex, revealing a core heterodimer comprising pUL7 bound to residues 41–125 of pUL51. While pUL7 adopts a previously-unseen compact fold, the extended helix-turn-helix conformation of pUL51 resembles the cellular endosomal complex required for transport (ESCRT)- III component CHMP4B, suggesting a direct role for pUL51 in promoting membrane scission during virus assembly. We demonstrate that the interaction between pUL7 and pUL51 homologues is conserved acrosshuman α-, β- and γ-herpesviruses, as is their association with trans-Golgi membranes in cultured cells. However, pUL7 and pUL51 homologues do not form complexes with their respective partners from different virus families, suggesting that the molecular details of the interaction interface have diverged. Our results demonstrate that the pUL7:pUL51 complex is conserved across the herpesviruses and provide a structural framework for understanding its role in herpesvirus assembly.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos

ORGANISM(S): Bacteria Human Alphaherpesvirus 1 Human Herpesvirus 1 (strain Kos) (hhv-1) (human Herpes Simplex Virus 1)

TISSUE(S): Cell Suspension Culture

SUBMITTER: Jack Houghton

LAB HEAD: Dr Stephen C Graham

PROVIDER: PXD015941 | Pride | 2020-05-11

REPOSITORIES: Pride

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Insights into herpesvirus assembly from the structure of the pUL7:pUL51 complex.

Butt Benjamin G BG Owen Danielle J DJ Jeffries Cy M CM Ivanova Lyudmila L Hill Chris H CH Houghton Jack W JW Ahmed Md Firoz MF Antrobus Robin R Svergun Dmitri I DI Welch John J JJ Crump Colin M CM Graham Stephen C SC

eLife 20200511

Herpesviruses acquire their membrane envelopes in the cytoplasm of infected cells via a molecular mechanism that remains unclear. Herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 proteins pUL7 and pUL51 form a complex required for efficient virus envelopment. We show that interaction between homologues of pUL7 and pUL51 is conserved across human herpesviruses, as is their association with <i>trans</i>-Golgi membranes. We characterized the HSV-1 pUL7:pUL51 complex by solution scattering and chemical crosslinking, re ...[more]

PMID: 32391791

Similar Datasets

Project description:Rapid and dynamically shifting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) underlie the capacity of cells to recognize viral infections and ignite the downstream cascades that constitute the innate-immune response. Herpesviruses share an ancient history of coevolution with their hosts and have developed reciprocal methods to suppress or hijack immune response proteins — underscoring the biological complexity of host-pathogen interactions during the immune response. Accordingly, conventional approaches to studying PPIs downstream of innate immune sensing fail to capture both the global scope and the dynamic on-off behavior of protein complexes as they are altered throughout cellular space and time. To overcome this barrier, we have applied Thermal Proteome Profiling Mass Spectrometry (TPP-MS) to systemically characterize PPIs that coordinate the innate-immune response to Herpes Simplex Virus 1 (HSV-1) infection in primary human fibroblasts. Further, by advancing the power of thermal protein co ggregation analysis (TPCA) to infer associations de novo and to globally track these PPIs, we developed a time-resolved portrait of cellular and viral protein associations with IFI16, a nuclear DNA sensor that serves as a central platform for HSV-1 immune responses. Our TPCA analysis, along with high-resolution microscopy and molecular virological techniques, linked IFI16 sensing of viral DNA in the nuclear periphery to the master DNA damage response (DDR) regulatory kinase, DNA-PK — the activation of which we show to be necessary for the antiviral and inflammatory responses to infection. Finally, phospho-peptide enrichment and MS analysis of DNA-PK substrates revealed IFI16 to be targeted by DNA-PK after both DNA damage and viral infection. Functional analysis of this DDR-dependent IFI16 phosphorylation revealed the specific modified residue required for IFI16-driven cytokine responses. Altogether, our study represents the first systems-wide characterization of the global dynamics of PPIs during HSV-1 infection and uncovers a missing link in the immune signaling pathway that places IFI16 and DNA-PK at the center of herpesvirus innate immunity.

Dataset Information

Structure of herpes simplex virus pUL7:pUL51, a conserved complex required for efficient herpesvirus assembly

Publications

Insights into herpesvirus assembly from the structure of the pUL7:pUL51 complex.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure