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  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that is a serious global health problem. Evasion of IFN-mediated antiviral signaling is a common defense strategy that pathogenic viruses use to replicate and propagate in their host. In this study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 is able to efficiently block STAT1 and STAT2 nuclear translocation in order to impair transcriptional induction of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs). Our results demonstrate that the viral accessory protein Orf6 exerts this anti-IFN activity. We found that SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 localizes at the nuclear pore complex (NPC) and directly interacts with Nup98-Rae1 via its C-terminal domain to impair docking of cargo-receptor (karyopherin/importin) complex and disrupt nuclear import. In addition, we show that a methionine-to-arginine substitution at residue 58 impairs Orf6 binding to the Nup98-Rae1 complex and abolishes its IFN antagonistic function. All together our data unravel a mechanism of viral antagonism in which a virus hijacks the Nup98-Rae1 complex to overcome the antiviral action of IFN.
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?:doi
?:doi
  • 10.1073/pnas.2016650117
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  • Proc_Natl_Acad_Sci_U_S_A
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  • cc-by
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/fcb734c51806157bab4ee31ade1c43bcbe5ef5fd.json; document_parses/pdf_json/401d1f09d790c36894f7c7675404715bb0882503.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7668094.xml.json
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?:pmid
?:pmid
  • 33097660.0
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?:source
  • Medline; PMC
?:title
  • SARS-CoV-2 Orf6 hijacks Nup98 to block STAT nuclear import and antagonize interferon signaling
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?:year
  • 2020-11-10

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