Peng Xu, Zhe Zhou, Min Xiong, Wei Zou, Xuefeng Deng, Safder S Ganaie, Steve Kleiboeker, Jianxin Peng, Kaiyu Liu, Shengqi Wang, Shui Qing Ye, Jianming Qiu
PLoS pathogens 2017 MarHuman parvovirus B19 (B19V) infection of primary human erythroid progenitor cells (EPCs) arrests infected cells at both late S-phase and G2-phase, which contain 4N DNA. B19V infection induces a DNA damage response (DDR) that facilitates viral DNA replication but is dispensable for cell cycle arrest at G2-phase; however, a putative C-terminal transactivation domain (TAD2) within NS1 is responsible for G2-phase arrest. To fully understand the mechanism underlying B19V NS1-induced G2-phase arrest, we established two doxycycline-inducible B19V-permissive UT7/Epo-S1 cell lines that express NS1 or NS1mTAD2, and examined the function of the TAD2 domain during G2-phase arrest. The results confirm that the NS1 TAD2 domain plays a pivotal role in NS1-induced G2-phase arrest. Mechanistically, NS1 transactivated cellular gene expression through the TAD2 domain, which was itself responsible for ATR (ataxia-telangiectasia mutated and Rad3-related) activation. Activated ATR phosphorylated CDC25C at serine 216, which in turn inactivated the cyclin B/CDK1 complex without affecting nuclear import of the complex. Importantly, we found that the ATR-CHK1-CDC25C-CDK1 pathway was activated during B19V infection of EPCs, and that ATR activation played an important role in B19V infection-induced G2-phase arrest.
Peng Xu, Zhe Zhou, Min Xiong, Wei Zou, Xuefeng Deng, Safder S Ganaie, Steve Kleiboeker, Jianxin Peng, Kaiyu Liu, Shengqi Wang, Shui Qing Ye, Jianming Qiu. Parvovirus B19 NS1 protein induces cell cycle arrest at G2-phase by activating the ATR-CDC25C-CDK1 pathway. PLoS pathogens. 2017 Mar;13(3):e1006266
PMID: 28264028
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