State Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Public Health, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Department of General Surgery, Hebei Key Laboratory of Colorectal Cancer Precision Diagnosis and Treatment, The First Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, China.
Autophagy. 2024 Oct;20(10):2133-2145. doi: 10.1080/15548627.2024.2356505. Epub 2024 Jun 30.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) nonstructural protein (NSs) is an important viral virulence factor that sequesters multiple antiviral proteins into inclusion bodies to escape the antiviral innate immune response. However, the mechanism of the NSs restricting host innate immunity remains largely elusive. Here, we found that the NSs induced complete macroautophagy/autophagy by interacting with the CCD domain of BECN1, thereby promoting the formation of a BECN1-dependent autophagy initiation complex. Importantly, our data showed that the NSs sequestered antiviral proteins such as TBK1 into autophagic vesicles, and therefore promoted the degradation of TBK1 and other antiviral proteins. In addition, the 8A mutant of NSs reduced the induction of BECN1-dependent autophagy flux and degradation of antiviral immune proteins. In conclusion, our results indicated that SFTSV NSs sequesters antiviral proteins into autophagic vesicles for degradation and to escape antiviral immune responses.
严重发热伴血小板减少综合征病毒(SFTSV)非结构蛋白(NSs)是一种重要的病毒毒力因子,它将多种抗病毒蛋白隔离到包含体内,以逃避抗病毒固有免疫反应。然而,NSs 限制宿主固有免疫的机制在很大程度上仍难以捉摸。在这里,我们发现 NSs 通过与 BECN1 的 CCD 结构域相互作用,诱导完全的巨自噬/自噬,从而促进 BECN1 依赖性自噬起始复合物的形成。重要的是,我们的数据表明 NSs 将抗病毒蛋白如 TBK1 隔离到自噬小体中,从而促进了 TBK1 和其他抗病毒蛋白的降解。此外,NSs 的 8A 突变减少了 BECN1 依赖性自噬流的诱导和抗病毒免疫蛋白的降解。总之,我们的结果表明,SFTSV NSs 将抗病毒蛋白隔离到自噬小体中进行降解,以逃避抗病毒免疫反应。
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