Influenza A virus ribonucleoproteins form liquid organelles at endoplasmic reticulum exit sites

• Autor(a) principal: Alenquer, Marta
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Vale-Costa, Sílvia, Etibor, Temitope Akhigbe, Ferreira, Filipe, Sousa, Ana Laura, Amorim, Maria João
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.7/916
• topic: A549 Cells; Animals; Cytosol; Dogs; Endoplasmic Reticulum; Golgi Apparatus; HEK293 Cells; HeLa Cells; Host-Pathogen Interactions; Humans; Influenza A virus; Influenza, Human; Madin Darby Canine Kidney Cells; Protein Binding; RNA, Viral; Ribonucleoproteins; Viral Proteins; rab GTP-Binding Proteins; Virus Assembly

Influenza A virus has an eight-partite RNA genome that during viral assembly forms a complex containing one copy of each RNA. Genome assembly is a selective process driven by RNA-RNA interactions and is hypothesized to lead to discrete punctate structures scattered through the cytosol. Here, we show that contrary to the accepted view, formation of these structures precedes RNA-RNA interactions among distinct viral ribonucleoproteins (vRNPs), as they assemble in cells expressing only one vRNP type. We demonstrate that these viral inclusions display characteristics of liquid organelles, segregating from the cytosol without a delimitating membrane, dynamically exchanging material and adapting fast to environmental changes. We provide evidence that viral inclusions develop close to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) exit sites, depend on continuous ER-Golgi vesicular cycling and do not promote escape to interferon response. We propose that viral inclusions segregate vRNPs from the cytosol and facilitate selected RNA-RNA interactions in a liquid environment.