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A viral ADP-ribosyltransferase attaches RNA chains to host proteins

ABSTRACT: The mechanisms by which viruses hijack their host’s genetic machinery are of enormous current interest. One mechanism is adenosine diphosphate (ADP) ribosylation, where ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs) transfer an ADP-ribose fragment from the ubiquitous co-factor nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to acceptor proteins (Cohen and Chang, 2018). When bacteriophage T4 infects Escherichia coli, three different ARTs reprogram the host’s transcriptional and translational apparatus (Koch et al., 1995; Tiemann et al., 2004). Recently, NAD was identified as a 5’-modification of cellular RNA molecules in bacteria and higher organisms (Cahova et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2009; Jiao et al., 2017). Here, we report that a bacteriophage T4 ART ModB accepts not only NAD but also NAD-RNA as substrate, thereby covalently linking entire RNA chains to acceptor proteins in an “RNAylation” reaction. This enzyme specifically RNAylates its host protein targets, ribosomal proteins rS1 and rL2, at arginine residues and prefers NAD-RNA over NAD. RNAylation of specific ribosomal proteins decreases ribosome activity. We identify specific E. coli and T4 phage RNAs, which are RNAylated to rS1 in vivo.T4 phages expressing an inactive mutant of ModB show a decreased burst size and a decelerated lysis of E. coli during T4 infection. Our findings not only challenge the established views of the phage replication cycle but also reveal a distinct biological role of NAD-RNA, namely activation of the RNA for enzymatic transfer. Our work exemplifies the first direct connection between RNA modification and post-translational protein modification. As ARTs play important roles far beyond viral infections (Fehr et al., 2020), RNAylation may have far-reaching implications.

INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Exploris 480

ORGANISM(S): Escherichia Coli

SUBMITTER: Timo Glatter

LAB HEAD: Timo Glatter

PROVIDER: PXD041714 | Pride | 2023-05-30

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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A viral ADP-ribosyltransferase attaches RNA chains to host proteins.

Wolfram-Schauerte Maik M Pozhydaieva Nadiia N Grawenhoff Julia J Welp Luisa M LM Silbern Ivan I Wulf Alexander A Billau Franziska A FA Glatter Timo T Urlaub Henning H Jäschke Andres A Höfer Katharina K

Nature 20230816 7976

The mechanisms by which viruses hijack the genetic machinery of the cells they infect are of current interest. When bacteriophage T4 infects Escherichia coli, it uses three different adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-ribosyltransferases (ARTs) to reprogram the transcriptional and translational apparatus of the host by ADP-ribosylation using nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) as a substrate<sup>1,2</sup>. NAD has previously been identified as a 5' modification of cellular RNAs<sup>3-5</sup>. Here ...[more]

PMID: 37587340

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Project description:Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase 1 (PARP-1) is a nuclear enzyme that catalyse the transfer of ADP-ribose units from NAD+ to several target proteins involved in cellular stress responses. Using the cell line WRL68, we have previously shown that the activation of PARP-1 induced by oxidative stress after H2O2 treatment lead to depletion of cellular NAD+ and ATP, which promote cell death. In this work, we used LC-MS/MS based phosphoproteomics to show that the oxidative damage induced by H2O2 treatment modified the phosphorylation of several proteins in WRL68 cells, most of them related to transcription process. Interestingly, genetic or pharmacological inhibition of PARP-1 reduced the phosphorylation of YAP1, a transcriptional coactivator involved in cell survival, in WRL68 cells after H2O2 treatment. Inhibition of PARP-1 increased cell viability after oxidative treatment and diminished the degradation of YAP1; the elimination of YAP1 by gene silencing abrogated the protective effect of PARP-1 inhibition, indicating that YAP1 is important for the survival of WRL68 cells after oxidative damage. In the same way, the supplementation of NAD+, substrate of PARP-1, on WRL68 cells suffering oxidative damage reduced the phosphorylation of YAP1, suggesting that the loss of cellular NAD+ caused by PARP-1 activation after oxidative treatment is responsible for the phosphorylation of YAP1. Finally, PARP-1 silencing after oxidative treatment diminished the activation of AMPK, a master regulator of cell metabolism implicated in the restoration of energy balance during metabolic stress. Since NAD+ supplementation reduced the phosphorylation of some AMPK substrates in WRL68 cells after oxidative treatment, we hypothesize that the loss of cellular NAD+ after PARP-1 activation may induce a metabolic stress that activates AMPK. In summary, we showed a new crucial role of PARP-1 in the response to oxidative stress in WRL68 cells; PARP-1 activation reduces the cell viability by promoting the phosphorylation and degradation of YAP1, which is mediated by the energy stress caused by PARP-1 activation.

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