Title | Protein interactions and consensus clustering analysis uncover insights into herpesvirus virion structure and function relationships. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Durán, AHernández, Greco, TM, Vollmer, B, Cristea, IM, Grünewald, K, Topf, M |
Journal | PLoS Biol |
Volume | 17 |
Issue | 6 |
Pagination | e3000316 |
Date Published | 2019 Jun |
ISSN | 1545-7885 |
Keywords | Animals, Capsid, Capsid Proteins, Computational Biology, Databases, Factual, Herpes Simplex, Herpesvirus 1, Human, Humans, Hydro-Lyases, Protein Binding, Protein Interaction Maps, Structure-Activity Relationship, Viral Proteins, Viral Structural Proteins, Virion, Virus Assembly |
Abstract | <p>Infections with human herpesviruses are ubiquitous and a public health concern worldwide. Current treatments reduce the severity of some symptoms associated to herpetic infections but neither remove the viral reservoir from the infected host nor protect from the recurrent symptom outbreaks that characterise herpetic infections. The difficulty in therapeutically tackling these viral systems stems in part from their remarkably large proteomes and the complex networks of physical and functional associations that they tailor. This study presents our efforts to unravel the complexity of the interactome of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), the prototypical herpesvirus species. Inspired by our previous work, we present an improved and more integrative computational pipeline for the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network reconstruction in HSV1, together with a newly developed consensus clustering framework, which allowed us to extend the analysis beyond binary physical interactions and revealed a system-level layout of higher-order functional associations in the virion proteome. Additionally, the analysis provided new functional annotation for the currently undercharacterised protein pUS10. In-depth bioinformatics sequence analysis unravelled structural features in pUS10 reminiscent of those observed in some capsid-associated proteins in tailed bacteriophages, with which herpesviruses are believed to share a common ancestry. Using immunoaffinity purification (IP)-mass spectrometry (MS), we obtained additional support for our bioinformatically predicted interaction between pUS10 and the inner tegument protein pUL37, which binds cytosolic capsids, contributing to initial tegumentation and eventually virion maturation. In summary, this study unveils new, to our knowledge, insights at both the system and molecular levels that can help us better understand the complexity behind herpesvirus infections.</p> |
DOI | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000316 |
Alternate Journal | PLoS Biol |
PubMed ID | 31199794 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC6594648 |
Grant List | 107806/Z/15/Z / WT_ / Wellcome Trust / United Kingdom 203141/Z/16/Z / WT_ / Wellcome Trust / United Kingdom R01 GM114141 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States MR/M019292/1 / MRC_ / Medical Research Council / United Kingdom 209250/Z/17/Z / WT_ / Wellcome Trust / United Kingdom / / Wellcome Trust / United Kingdom |