Phase-separated nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 suppresses cGAS-DNA recognition by disrupting cGAS-G3BP1 complex

© 2023. The Author(s)..

Currently, the incidence and fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 remain continually high worldwide. COVID-19 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 exhibited decreased type I interferon (IFN-I) signal, along with limited activation of antiviral immune responses as well as enhanced viral infectivity. Dramatic progresses have been made in revealing the multiple strategies employed by SARS-CoV-2 in impairing canonical RNA sensing pathways. However, it remains to be determined about the SARS-CoV-2 antagonism of cGAS-mediated activation of IFN responses during infection. In the current study, we figure out that SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to the accumulation of released mitochondria DNA (mtDNA), which in turn triggers cGAS to activate IFN-I signaling. As countermeasures, SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid (N) protein restricts the DNA recognition capacity of cGAS to impair cGAS-induced IFN-I signaling. Mechanically, N protein disrupts the assembly of cGAS with its co-factor G3BP1 by undergoing DNA-induced liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), subsequently impairs the double-strand DNA (dsDNA) detection ability of cGAS. Taken together, our findings unravel a novel antagonistic strategy by which SARS-CoV-2 reduces DNA-triggered IFN-I pathway through interfering with cGAS-DNA phase separation.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Signal transduction and targeted therapy - 8(2023), 1 vom: 26. Apr., Seite 170

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cai, Sihui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Chenqiu [VerfasserIn]
Zhuang, Zhen [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shengnan [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Ling [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Shuai [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Tao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Zheyu [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Weihong [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Shouheng [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Jincun [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Xiangdong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Jianfeng [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Jun [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Yaoxing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-49-2
CGAS protein, human
DNA
DNA Helicases
EC 2.7.7.-
EC 3.6.4.-
EC 3.6.4.12
EC 3.6.4.13
G3BP1 protein, human
Interferon Type I
Journal Article
Nucleocapsid Proteins
Nucleocapsid phosphoprotein, SARS-CoV-2
Nucleotidyltransferases
Poly-ADP-Ribose Binding Proteins
RNA Helicases
RNA Recognition Motif Proteins
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 27.10.2023

Date Revised 27.10.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41392-023-01420-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356044238