Abstract

Host shutoff is a common strategy used by viruses to repress cellular mRNA translation and concomitantly allow the efficient translation of viral mRNAs. Here we use RNA-sequencing and ribosome profiling to explore the mechanisms that are being utilized by Influenza A virus (IAV) to induce host shutoff. We show that viral transcripts are not preferentially translated and instead the decline in cellular protein synthesis is mediated by viral takeover on the mRNA pool. Our measurements also uncover strong variability in the levels of cellular transcripts reduction, revealing that short transcripts are less affected by IAV. Interestingly, these mRNAs that are refractory to IAV infection are enriched in cell maintenance processes such as oxidative phosphorylation. Furthermore we show that the continuous oxidative phosphorylation activity is important for viral propagation. Our results advance our understanding of IAV-induced shutoff, and suggest a mechanism that facilitates the translation of genes with important housekeeping functions.

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The following data sets were generated
    1. Gelbart IA
    2. Stern-Ginossar N
    (2016) A systematic view on Influenza induced host shut-off
    Publicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no. GSE82232).

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  1. Adi Bercovich-Kinori

    Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  2. Julie Tai

    Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  3. Idit Anna Gelbart

    Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  4. Alina Shitrit

    Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  5. Shani Ben-Moshe

    Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  6. Yaron Drori

    Central Virology Laboratory, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ministry of Health, Rehovot, Israel
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  7. Shalev Itzkovitz

    Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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  8. Michal Mandelboim

    Central Virology Laboratory, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ministry of Health, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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  9. Noam Stern-Ginossar

    Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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    noam.stern-ginossar@weizmann.ac.il
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Funding

Human Frontier Science Program

  • Noam Stern-Ginossar

Israel Science Foundation

  • Noam Stern-Ginossar

Israeli Centers for Research Excellence

  • Noam Stern-Ginossar

European Research Council

  • Noam Stern-Ginossar

Marie Curie integration grant

  • Noam Stern-Ginossar

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2016, Bercovich-Kinori et al.

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  1. Adi Bercovich-Kinori
  2. Julie Tai
  3. Idit Anna Gelbart
  4. Alina Shitrit
  5. Shani Ben-Moshe
  6. Yaron Drori
  7. Shalev Itzkovitz
  8. Michal Mandelboim
  9. Noam Stern-Ginossar
(2016)
A systematic view on Influenza induced host shut-off
eLife 5:e18311.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.18311

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