Viruses hijack FPN1 to disrupt iron withholding and suppress host defense
Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
PROVIDER: PRJNA1176542 | ENA |
REPOSITORIES: ENA
Similar Datasets
Project description:Iron withholding controls infections by limiting the pathogens’ access to iron from the host. Viruses directly utilize intracellular materials, including iron, to complete their life cycles. Emerging evidence suggests the importance of withholding iron in limiting viral infections. However, the mechanisms through which viruses disrupt host iron homeostasis and the impact of intracellular iron on the host’s antiviral defense remain unknown. Here we show that viral infections facilitate the polyubiquitination and degradation of ferroportin (FPN1, the only cellular iron exporter) by upregulating the host E3 ubiquitin ligase DTX3L, leading to an elevation in cellular iron levels. Excessive ferrous suppresses type I IFN responses and autophagy by promoting TBK1 hydroxylation and STING carbonylation in macrophages. FPN1 deficiency suppresses host antiviral defense and facilitates viral replication in vitro and in vivo, while DTX3L deficiency has the opposite effect. These results reveal that viruses hijack host FPN1 to disrupt iron withholding and achieve immune escape, and suggest that iron homeostasis maintained by FPN1 is required for the optimal activation of TBK1- and STING-dependent antiviral responses.
2025-01-01 | GSE280144 | GEO
Project description:Small Molecule Inhibitors that Disrupt the MTDH-SND1 Complex Suppress Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis
| PRJNA670433 | ENA
Project description:Environmentally relevant concentrations of niclosamide disrupt antioxidant defense, histology, and the liver and intestine transcriptome of Chinese soft-shelled turtle
| PRJNA936854 | ENA
Project description:Viruses generally are defined as lacking the fundamental properties of living organisms in that they do not harbor an energy metabolism system or protein synthesis machinery. However, the discovery of giant viruses of amoeba has fundamentally challenged this view because of their exceptional genome properties, particle sizes and encoding of the enzyme machinery for some steps of protein synthesis. Although giant viruses are not able to replicate autonomously and still require a host for their multiplication, numerous metabolic genes involved in energy production have been recently detected in giant virus genomes from many environments. These findings have further blurred the boundaries that separate viruses and living organisms. Herein, we summarize information concerning genes and proteins involved in cellular metabolic pathways and their orthologues that have, surprisingly, been discovered in giant viruses. The remarkable diversity of metabolic genes described in giant viruses include genes encoding enzymes involved in glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, tricarboxylic acid cycle, photosynthesis, and β-oxidation. These viral genes are thought to have been acquired from diverse biological sources through lateral gene transfer early in the evolution of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses, or in some cases more recently. It was assumed that viruses are capable of hijacking host metabolic networks. But the giant virus auxiliary metabolic genes also may represent another form of host metabolism manipulation, by expanding the catalytic capabilities of the host cells especially in harsh environments, providing the infected host cells with a selective evolutionary advantage compared to non-infected cells and hence favoring the viral replication. However, the mechanism of these genes' functionality remains unclear to date.
| S-EPMC9270025 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Transcription factors have proven difficult to target with small molecule inhibitors because they often lack deep pockets necessary for potent binding. Alternatively, disruption of protein expression can suppress difficult targets and enable therapeutic intervention. To this end, we have developed a drug discovery workflow that incorporates cell line-selective screening and high-throughput expression profiling followed by regulatory network analysis to identify compounds that suppress regulatory drivers of disease. Applying this approach to neuroblastoma (NBL), we screened bioactive molecules in cell lines representing the MYC-dependent (MYCNA) and mesenchymal (MES) subtypes to identify selective compounds, followed by PLATESeq profiling of treated cells. This revealed compounds that disrupt a network of MYCNA-specific regulatory proteins, resulting in MYCN degradation in vivo. The top hit was isopomiferin, a prenylated isoflavonoid that inhibited Casein Kinase 2 (CK2) in cells. Isopomiferin and its structural analogs inhibited MYC and MYCN in NBL and lung cancer cells, highlighting the general MYC-inhibiting potential of this unique scaffold.
2023-10-10 | GSE245006 | GEO
Project description:Arthropod-borne pathogens and parasites are major threats to human health and global agriculture. They may directly or indirectly manipulate behaviors of arthropod vector for rapid transmission between hosts. The largest genus of plant viruses, Begomovirus, is transmitted exclusively by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), a complex of at least 34 morphologically indistinguishable species. We have previously shown that plants infected with the tomato yellowleaf curl China virus (TYLCCNV) and its associated betasatellite (TYLCCNB) attract their whitefly vectors by subverting plant MYC2-regulated terpenoid biosynthesis, therefore forming an indirect mutualism between virus and vector via plant. However, the evolutionary mechanism of interactions between begomoviruses and their whitefly vectors is still poorly understood. Here we present evidence to suggest that indirect mutualism may happen over a millennium ago and at present extensively prevails. Detailed bioinformatics and functional analysis identified the serine-33 as an evolutionary conserved phosphorylation site in 105 of 119 Betasatellite species-encoded βC1 proteins, which are responsible for suppressing plant terpenoid-based defense by interfering with MYC2 dimerization and are essential to promote whitefly performance. The substitution of serine-33 of βC1 proteins with either aspartate (phosphorylation mimic mutants) or cysteine, the amino acid in the non-functional sβC1 encoded by Siegesbeckia yellow vein betasatellite SiYVB) impaired the ability of βC1 functions on suppression of MYC2 dimerization, whitefly attraction and fitness. Moreover the gain of function mutation of cysteine-31 to serine in sβC1 protein of SiYVB restored these functions of βC1 protein. Thus, the dynamic phosphorylation of serine-33 in βC1 proteins helps the virus to evade host defense against insect vectors with an evolutionarily conserved manner. Our data provide a mechanistic explanation of how arboviruses evolutionarily modulate host defenses for rapid transmission.
| S-EPMC9818243 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Within tumor cells the heat shock factor 1 (HSF1)-mediated stress response is constitutively mobilized to counter persistent proteotoxic stress, hence sustaining their fragile proteome homeostasis and supporting robust malignant phenotypes. Intriguingly, our new studies reveal that metabolic stressors, such as metformin, inactivate HSF1 and provoke proteomic chaos, thereby impeding tumorigenesis.
| S-EPMC4786015 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Previous studies discovered that MTDH frequently amplifies and overexpresses in breast cancer in human patients and is strongly associated with higher metastasis and treatment failure and thereby leads to poor prognosis. In mouse mammary tumor models, knockout of Mtdh substantially reduces tumor incidence and suppresess metastasis. Furthermore, Mtdh interact with Snd1 and the interaction appears essential for its tumor promoting function. To develop novel therapeutics targeting Mtdh function, small molecular compound to disrupt the Mtdh-Snd1 interaction was identified by high throughput screen. To further elucidate the mechanism of MTDH targeting caused anti-tumor activity and to confirm the action mode of the small molecular compound C26A6 as a Mtdh-Snd1 disruptor, transcriptome changes in mouse mammary tumors following treatments of C26A6 and acute induction of Mtdh knockout by Tamoxifen treatment were investigated using next generation sequencing.
2021-09-07 | GSE159764 | GEO
Project description:Arboviruses and symbiotic viruses can be paternally transmitted by male insects to their offspring for long-term viral persistence in nature, but the mechanism remains largely unknown. Here, we identify the sperm-specific serpin protein HongrES1 of leafhopper Recilia dorsalis as a mediator of paternal transmission of the reovirus Rice gall dwarf virus (RGDV) and a previously undescribed symbiotic virus of the Virgaviridae family, Recilia dorsalis filamentous virus (RdFV). We show that HongrES1 mediates the direct binding of virions to leafhopper sperm surfaces and subsequent paternal transmission via interaction with both viral capsid proteins. Direct interaction of viral capsid proteins mediates simultaneously invasion of two viruses into male reproductive organs. Moreover, arbovirus activates HongrES1 expression to suppress the conversion of prophenoloxidase to active phenoloxidase, potentially producing a mild antiviral melanization defense. Paternal virus transmission scarcely affects offspring fitness. These findings provide insights into how different viruses cooperatively hijack insect sperm-specific proteins for paternal transmission without disturbing sperm functions.
| S-EPMC9998617 | biostudies-literature
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE41936: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [ChIP-chip]. GSE41938: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [tiling array]. GSE41939: Rho and NusG suppress pervasive antisense transcription in Escherichia coli [RNA-seq]. Refer to individual Series
2012-11-01 | E-GEOD-41940 | biostudies-arrayexpress