Structure and Mechanism of HERC5-dependent ISGylation

HERC5 依赖性 ISGylation 的结构和机制

• 批准号: 10439061
• 负责人: Donald Eric Spratt
• 金额: $ 45.09万
• 依托单位: CLARK UNIVERSITY (WORCESTER, MA)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-20 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10439061
• 关键词: 2019-nCoV; 3-Dimensional; Active Sites; Antiviral Agents; Antiviral Response; Authorship; Biochemical; Biochemistry; Biological Assay; Biophysics; C-terminal; Calorimetry; Cell membrane; Cells; Characteristics; Charge; Chemicals; Chemistry; Complex; Coupled; Cysteine; Development; Disease; Drug Targeting; Ebola virus; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Enzymatic Biochemistry; Enzymes; Functional disorder; Future; Genes; Goals; HIV; Health; Hepatitis C; Heteronuclear NMR; Human; Immunologics; Influenza; Influenza A virus; Innate Immune Response; Interferons; International; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Lobe; Mammalian Cell; Manuscripts; Mediating; Molecular; Molecular Biology; Monitor; N-terminal; NMR Spectroscopy; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pharmacotherapy; Play; Preparation; Process; Production; Protein Biosynthesis; Proteins; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Project Grants; Role; SARS-CoV-2 antiviral; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Signal Transduction; Site-Directed Mutagenesis; Structure; Testing; Time; Titrations; Training; UBE3A gene; Ubiquitin; Ubiquitin Like Proteins; Universities; Viral; Viral Pathogenesis; Viral Physiology; Viral Proteins; Virion; Virus Diseases; Virus Replication; Work; X-Ray Crystallography; antiviral immunity; biophysical techniques; combat; experimental study; human disease; improved; innovation; insight; member; novel; pathogenic virus; programs; response; success; symposium; therapy development; three dimensional structure; ubiquitin-protein ligase; undergraduate student

Project Summary Mammalian cells have developed an elaborate network of immunoproteins that serve to identify and combat viral pathogens. Interferon-stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) is a 17.2 kDa tandem ubiquitin-like protein that is used by specific E1– E2–E3 ubiquitin cascade enzymes to interfere with the activity of viral proteins. Recent biochemical studies have demonstrated how the HECT and RCC1-containing protein 5 (HERC5) E3 ligase regulates ISG15 signaling in response to SARS-CoV-2, hepatitis C (HCV), influenza-A (IAV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other viral infections. While the immunological role of HERC5-dependent ISGylation is well established, the molecular mechanisms used by HERC5 to catalyze the specific and timely attachment of ISG15 to proteins in response to a viral infection remain unclear. It is paramount that we understand how HERC5 works at the atomic level to aid in the future development of therapies to treat viral infections and to enhance human health. The objective of this project is to understand the structural and biochemical basis for HERC5-dependent IGSylation. To date there have been no structural studies reported for HERC5. We will elucidate the unique mechanism used by HERC5 to attach ISG15 on to viral substrates. HERC5 is a unique member of the Homologous to E6AP C-Terminus (HECT) E3 ubiquitin ligases that contains the characteristic HECT domain, consisting of an N-terminal lobe and a C-terminal lobe, that is responsible for catalyzing the covalent attachment of ISG15 to a target protein. Currently the mechanism that HERC5 uses and the identities of specific residues in and around the active site required to catalyze the attachment of ISG15 with is unclear. The long-term scientific goal of the PI is to investigate the 3D structures and underlying enzymology for HERC5 to learn how this enzyme selectively and specifically attaches ISG15 to viral proteins as part of the host’s innate immune response. The major foci of this proposal will be to determine the catalytic mechanism of HERC5 using structural and biophysical approaches (Aim 1), and to examine HERC5 complex with ISG15 and the E2 enzyme UBE2L6 (Aim 2). Our preliminary studies using NMR spectroscopy and other biochemical approaches suggest that the novel mechanism of HERC5 is found exclusively in the HECT domain C-terminal lobe that contain the absolutely conserved catalytic cysteine required to ISGylate viral proteins. Building on our established track-record of examining the mechanisms of other members of the HECT E3 ubiquitin ligases, the inherent difference of HERC5 being ISG15-specific and not able to catalyze ubiquitin transfer provide an enticing opportunity to expand our current understanding of HECT-dependent activity and how their dysfunctions cause disease. Our findings will offer new insight into the molecular mechanisms used by the HECT E3 ligase HERC5 and help us learn how and why this enzyme works in response to a viral infection. Undergraduate students will be an essential part of the success of this R15 AREA research project. The contribution from Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB) undergraduate students at Clark University will be integral to the completion of the proposed work and, as a result of their importance in this research program, they will receive extensive guidance from the PI, will share in manuscript preparation and publication authorship, and present their work at national and international research conferences.

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