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Journal of Virology, October 2009, p. 10322-10335, Vol. 83, No. 20
0022-538X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.01186-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

IRF3 Inhibition by Rotavirus NSP1 Is Host Cell and Virus Strain Dependent but Independent of NSP1 Proteasomal Degradation{triangledown}

Adrish Sen,1,2 Ningguo Feng,1,2 Khalil Ettayebi,3 Michele E. Hardy,3 and Harry B. Greenberg1,2*

Departments of Microbiology and Immunology,1 Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305,2 Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 597173

Received 9 June 2009/ Accepted 27 July 2009

Rotavirus host range restriction forms a basis for strain attenuation although the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In mouse fibroblasts, the inability of rotavirus NSP1 to mediate interferon (IFN) regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) degradation correlates with IFN-dependent restricted replication of the bovine UK strain but not the mouse EW and simian RRV strains. We found that UK NSP1 is unable to degrade IRF3 when expressed in murine NIH 3T3 cells in contrast to the EW and RRV NSP1 proteins. Surprisingly, UK NSP1 expression led to IRF3 degradation in simian COS7 cells, indicating that IRF3 degradation by NSP1 is host cell dependent, a finding further supported using adenovirus-expressed NSP1 from NCDV bovine rotavirus. By expressing heterologous IRF3 proteins in complementary host cells, we found that IRF3 is the minimal host factor constraining NSP1 IRF3-degradative ability. NSP1-mediated IRF3 degradation was enhanced by transfection of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) in a host cell-specific manner, and in IRF3-dependent positive regulatory domain III reporter assays, NSP1 inhibited IRF3 function in response to pathway activation by dsRNA, TBK-1, IRF3, or constitutively activated IRF3-5D. An interesting observation arising from these experiments is the ability of transiently expressed UK NSP1 to inhibit poly(I:C)-directed IRF3 activity in NIH 3T3 cells in the absence of detectable IRF3 degradation, an unexpected finding since UK virus infection was unable to block IFN secretion, and UK NSP1 expression did not result in suppression of IRF3-directed activation of the pathway. RRV and EW but not UK NSP1 was proteasomally degraded, requiring E1 ligase activity, although NSP1 degradation was not required for IRF3 degradation. Using a chimeric RRV NSP1 protein containing the carboxyl 100 residues derived from UK NSP1, we found that the RRV NSP1 carboxyl 100 residues are critical for its IRF3 inhibition in murine cells but are not essential for NSP1 degradation. Thus, NSP1's ability to degrade IRF3 is host cell dependent and is independent of NSP1 proteasomal degradation.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Always Building, Room M-121, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford CA 94305-5119. Phone: (650) 725-9722. Fax: (650) 852-3259. E-mail: hbgreen{at}stanford.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 5 August 2009.

Journal of Virology, October 2009, p. 10322-10335, Vol. 83, No. 20
0022-538X/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JVI.01186-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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