Suraweera, Chathura D. and Anasir, M. I. * and Chugh, Srishti and Javorsky, Airah and Impey, Rachael E. and Hasan Zadeh, Mohammad and Soares da Costa, Tatiana P. and Hinds, Mark G. and Kvansakul, Marc (2020) Structural insight into tanapoxvirus‐mediated inhibition of apoptosis. The FEBS Journal. ISSN 1742-464X
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Premature programmed cell death or apoptosis of cells is a strategy utilized by multicellular organisms to counter microbial threats. Tanapoxvirus (TANV) is a large double‐stranded DNA virus belonging to the poxviridae that causes mild monkeypox‐like infections in humans and primates. TANV encodes for a putative apoptosis inhibitory protein 16L. We show that TANV16L is able to bind to a range of peptides spanning the BH3 motif of human proapoptotic Bcl‐2 proteins and is able to counter growth arrest of yeast induced by human Bak and Bax. We then determined the crystal structures of TANV16L bound to three identified interactors, Bax, Bim and Puma BH3. TANV16L adopts a globular Bcl‐2 fold comprising 7 α‐helices and utilizes the canonical Bcl‐2 binding groove to engage proapoptotic host cell Bcl‐2 proteins. Unexpectedly, TANV16L is able to adopt both a monomeric and a domain‐swapped dimeric topology where the α1 helix from one protomer is swapped into a neighbouring unit. Despite adopting two different oligomeric forms, the canonical ligand binding groove in TANV16L remains unchanged from monomer to domain‐swapped dimer. Our results provide a structural and mechanistic basis for tanapoxvirus‐mediated inhibition of host cell apoptosis and reveal the capacity of Bcl‐2 proteins to adopt differential oligomeric states whilst maintaining the canonical ligand binding groove in an unchanged state.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Poxvirus; tanapoxvirus; apoptosis; X-ray crystallography; isothermal titration calorimetry; Bcl-2 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology |
| Divisions: | Others > Non Sunway Academics Sunway University > School of Engineering and Technology [formerly School of Science and Technology until 2020] > Centre for Virus and Vaccine Research moved to SMLS wef 2021 |
| Depositing User: | Dr Janaki Sinnasamy |
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| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2020 02:23 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2020 02:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/id/eprint/1318 |
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