Human cytomegalovirus interactome analysis identifies degradation hubs, domain associations and viral protein functions

  1. Luis V Nobre
  2. Katie Nightingale
  3. Benjamin J Ravenhill
  4. Robin Antrobus
  5. Lior Soday
  6. Jenna Nichols
  7. James A Davies
  8. Sepehr Seirafian
  9. Eddie CY Wang
  10. Andrew J Davison
  11. Gavin WG Wilkinson
  12. Richard J Stanton
  13. Edward L Huttlin
  14. Michael P Weekes  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  2. MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, United Kingdom
  3. Cardiff University School of Medicine, United Kingdom
  4. Harvard Medical School, United States

Abstract

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) extensively modulates host cells, downregulating >900 human proteins during viral replication and degrading ≥133 proteins shortly after infection. The mechanism of degradation of most host proteins remains unresolved, and the functions of many viral proteins are incompletely characterised. We performed a mass spectrometry-based interactome analysis of 169 tagged, stably-expressed canonical strain Merlin HCMV proteins, and two non-canonical HCMV proteins, in infected cells. This identified a network of >3,400 virus-host and >150 virus-virus protein interactions, providing insights into functions for multiple viral genes. Domain analysis predicted binding of the viral UL25 protein to SH3 domains of NCK Adaptor Protein-1. Viral interacting proteins were identified for 31/133 degraded host targets. Finally, the uncharacterised, non-canonical ORFL147C protein was found to interact with elements of the mRNA splicing machinery, and a mutational study suggested its importance in viral replication. The interactome data will be important for future studies of herpesvirus infection.

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All data analysed during this study are included in the manuscript and supporting files. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium (http://www.proteomexchange.org/) via the PRIDE (Vizcaino et al., 2016) partner repository with the dataset identifier PXD014845.

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  1. Luis V Nobre

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  2. Katie Nightingale

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  3. Benjamin J Ravenhill

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  4. Robin Antrobus

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  5. Lior Soday

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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  6. Jenna Nichols

    MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  7. James A Davies

    Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  8. Sepehr Seirafian

    Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  9. Eddie CY Wang

    Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  10. Andrew J Davison

    MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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  11. Gavin WG Wilkinson

    Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  12. Richard J Stanton

    Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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  13. Edward L Huttlin

    Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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  14. Michael P Weekes

    Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Funding

Wellcome (108070/Z/15/Z)

  • Michael P Weekes

Medical Research Council (MR/L018373/1)

  • Eddie CY Wang
  • Gavin WG Wilkinson
  • Richard J Stanton

Medical Research Council (MR/P001602/1)

  • Eddie CY Wang
  • Gavin WG Wilkinson
  • Richard J Stanton

Wellcome (WT090323MA)

  • Eddie CY Wang
  • Gavin WG Wilkinson
  • Richard J Stanton

Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12014/3)

  • Andrew J Davison

National Institutes of Health (U24 HG006673)

  • Edward L Huttlin

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

Reviewing Editor

  1. Piet Maes, KU Leuven, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Belgium

Version history

  1. Received: July 3, 2019
  2. Accepted: December 24, 2019
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 24, 2019 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 14, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2019, Nobre et al.

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  1. Luis V Nobre
  2. Katie Nightingale
  3. Benjamin J Ravenhill
  4. Robin Antrobus
  5. Lior Soday
  6. Jenna Nichols
  7. James A Davies
  8. Sepehr Seirafian
  9. Eddie CY Wang
  10. Andrew J Davison
  11. Gavin WG Wilkinson
  12. Richard J Stanton
  13. Edward L Huttlin
  14. Michael P Weekes
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Human cytomegalovirus interactome analysis identifies degradation hubs, domain associations and viral protein functions
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https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49894

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