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Title | Structural insights into RNA bridging between HIV-1 Vif and antiviral factor APOBEC3G. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nat Commun, Vol. 14, Issue 1, Page 4037, Year 2023 |
Publish date | Jul 7, 2023 |
Authors | Takahide Kouno / Satoshi Shibata / Megumi Shigematsu / Jaekyung Hyun / Tae Gyun Kim / Hiroshi Matsuo / Matthias Wolf / |
PubMed Abstract | Great effort has been devoted to discovering the basis of A3G-Vif interaction, the key event of HIV's counteraction mechanism to evade antiviral innate immune response. Here we show reconstitution of ...Great effort has been devoted to discovering the basis of A3G-Vif interaction, the key event of HIV's counteraction mechanism to evade antiviral innate immune response. Here we show reconstitution of the A3G-Vif complex and subsequent A3G ubiquitination in vitro and report the cryo-EM structure of the A3G-Vif complex at 2.8 Å resolution using solubility-enhanced variants of A3G and Vif. We present an atomic model of the A3G-Vif interface, which assembles via known amino acid determinants. This assembly is not achieved by protein-protein interaction alone, but also involves RNA. The cryo-EM structure and in vitro ubiquitination assays identify an adenine/guanine base preference for the interaction and a unique Vif-ribose contact. This establishes the biological significance of an RNA ligand. Further assessment of interactions between A3G, Vif, and RNA ligands show that the A3G-Vif assembly and subsequent ubiquitination can be controlled by amino acid mutations at the interface or by polynucleotide modification, suggesting that a specific chemical moiety would be a promising pharmacophore to inhibit the A3G-Vif interaction. |
External links | Nat Commun / PubMed:37419875 / PubMed Central |
Methods | EM (single particle) |
Resolution | 2.5 - 4.2 Å |
Structure data | EMDB-34412, PDB-8h0i: EMDB-35997: Cryo-EM structure of APOBEC3G-Vif complex EMDB-35998: Cryo-EM structure of APOBEC3G-Vif complex EMDB-35999, PDB-8j62: |
Chemicals | ChemComp-ZN: ChemComp-CL: |
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Keywords | ANTIVIRAL PROTEIN / Human antiviral protein HIV / Human antiviral protein / HIV |