Third Helical Domain of the Nipah Virus Fusion Glycoprotein Modulates both Early and Late Steps in the Membrane Fusion Cascade.

Journal of Virology
J Lizbeth ZamoraHector C Aguilar

Abstract

Medically important paramyxoviruses, such as measles, mumps, parainfluenza, Nipah, and Hendra viruses, infect host cells by directing fusion of the viral and cellular plasma membranes. Upon infection, paramyxoviruses cause a second type of membrane fusion, cell-cell fusion (syncytium formation), which is linked to pathogenicity. Host cell receptor binding causes conformational changes in the attachment glycoprotein (HN, H, or G) that trigger a conformational cascade in the fusion (F) glycoprotein that mediates membrane fusion. F, a class I fusion protein, contains the archetypal heptad repeat regions 1 (HR1) and 2 (HR2). It is well established that binding of HR1 and HR2 is key to fusing viral and cellular membranes. In this study, we uncovered a novel fusion-modulatory role of a third structurally conserved helical region (HR3) in F. Based on its location within the F structure, and structural differences between its prefusion and postfusion conformations, we hypothesized that the HR3 modulates triggering of the F conformational cascade (still requiring G). We used the deadly Nipah virus (NiV) as an important paramyxoviral model to perform alanine scan mutagenesis and a series of multidisciplinary structural/functional analyse...Continue Reading

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