Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Comprehensive Atomic-Scale 3D Viral-Host Protein Interactomes Enable Dissection of Key Mechanisms and Evolutionary Processes Underlying Viral Pathogenesis
doi: 10.1101/2025.03.28.645946
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Schematic of RIG-I-like receptor and Herpes simplex virus-1 UL37 signaling. (B) Model demonstrating shared interface residues on TRAF6 for UL37 (predicted by Alphafold) and MAVS (PDB: 4Z8M) binding. (C) Schematic of experiments investigating UL37 suppression of MAVS signaling. 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc reporter cells induce Gaussia luciferase (GLuc) driven by tandem IFNB1 promoter elements after MAVS overexpression. (D) (Top) Relative GLuc in the supernatant (S/N) from 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc cells following overexpression of Flag-MAVS and increasing doses of UL37-V5 at 36 hours post-transfection (hpt). (Bottom) Immunoblot analysis of lysates from cells treated in the indicated manner. (E) (Top) Relative GLuc in the S/N from 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc cells following overexpression of Flag-MAVS and UL37-V5 WT or C819S deamidation mutant at 36 hpt. (Bottom) Immunoblot analysis of lysates from cells treated in the indicated manner. (F) Immunoblot analysis of anti-Flag and anti-HA immunoprecipitated extracts as well as input lysates from 293T MAVSKO cells transfected with HA-TRAF6, Flag-MAVS, and UL37-V5 as indicated (24 hpt). Quantification of HA-TRAF6 relative to immunoprecipitated Flag-MAVS and Flag-MAVS relative to immunoprecipitated HA-TRAF6 are shown below as indicated. (G) (Top) Immunoblot analysis of anti-V5 immunoprecipitated extracts and input lysates from 293T PRDII-GLuc (NF-κB reporter) cells expressing UL37-V5 WT or E1101A TRAF6-binding mutant (24 hpt). (Bottom) Relative GLuc in S/N from 293T PRDII-GLuc cells expressing UL37-V5 WT or E1101A. (H) Immunoblot analysis of 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc cells following expression of Flag-MAVS as well as UL37-V5 WT and E1101A at 36 hpt. (I) Quantification of phosphorylated IRF3 (S386) relative to total IRF3 from experiments in (H). (J) Relative GLuc in the S/N from 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc cells following overexpression of Flag-MAVS and UL37-V5 WT and E1101A (36 hpt). (K) RT-qPCR analysis of IFNB1 (target of IRF3 and NF-κB), IFIT1 (target of IRF3 and ISGF3 after activation by interferons), and IL8 (target of NF-κB) mRNA expression relative to HPRT1 from 293T MAVSKO IFNB1-GLuc cells following overexpression of Flag-MAVS and UL37-V5 WT and E1101A (36 hpt).
Article Snippet: The following primary antibodies were used for immunoblotting: rabbit anti-TRAF6 (CST, 1:1000), rabbit anti-IRF3 (CST, 1:1000), rabbit anti-IRF3 phospho-S386 (Abcam, 1:1000), HRP-conjugated anti-FLAG (Sigma-Aldrich, 1:5000), HRP-conjugated anti-V5 (Proteintech, 1:5000) and HRP-conjugated anti-β-actin (CST, 1:5000).
Techniques: Virus, Binding Assay, Luciferase, Over Expression, Transfection, Western Blot, Mutagenesis, Immunoprecipitation, Expressing, Quantitative RT-PCR, Activation Assay