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Journal of Virology, November 2001, p. 10409-10420, Vol. 75, No. 21
Department of Molecular Genetics, University
of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
606071; Quark Biotech, Inc., Pleasanton,
California 945662; Engelhardt Institute
of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
117984,3 M. P. Chumakov Institute
of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences, Moscow Region 142782,6 and
Moscow State University, Moscow
119899,7 Russia; Center for Biologics
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville,
Maryland 208524; and Clontech
Laboratories, Palo Alto, California 943035
Received 26 March 2001/Accepted 16 July 2001
Viral infections often trigger host defensive reactions by
activating intrinsic (intracellular) and extrinsic (receptor-mediated) apoptotic pathways. Poliovirus is known to encode an
antiapoptotic function(s) suppressing the intrinsic pathway.
Here, the effect of poliovirus nonstructural proteins on cell
sensitivity to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced (i.e.,
receptor-mediated) apoptosis was studied. This sensitivity is
dramatically enhanced by the viral proteinase 2A, due, most likely, to
inhibition of cellular translation. On the other hand, cells expressing
poliovirus noncapsid proteins 3A and 2B exhibit strong TNF resistance.
Expression of 3A neutralizes the proapoptotic activity of
2A and results in a specific suppression of TNF signaling, including
the lack of activation of NF-
0022-538X/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.21.10409-10420.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Poliovirus Protein 3A Inhibits Tumor Necrosis Factor
(TNF)-Induced Apoptosis by Eliminating the TNF Receptor from the
Cell Surface

B, due to elimination of the TNF
receptor from the cell surface. In agreement with this,
poliovirus infection results in a dramatic decrease in TNF receptor
abundance on the surfaces of infected cells as early as 4 h
postinfection. Poliovirus proteins that confer resistance to TNF
interfere with endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi protein trafficking, and
their effect on TNF signaling can be imitated by brefeldin A,
suggesting that the mechanism of poliovirus-mediated resistance to TNF
is a result of aberrant TNF receptor trafficking.
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Corresponding author. Present address: Department of
Molecular Biology, Lerner Research Institute, The Cleveland Clinic
Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195. Phone: (216) 445-1205. Fax: (216)
444-0512. E-mail for Nickolay Neznanov: neznann{at}ccf.org.
E-mail for Andrei V. Gudkov: gudkov{at}ccf.org.
Present address: Department of Molecular Biology, Lerner Research
Institute, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195.
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