Nature Communications (May 2018)

Molecular mechanism of influenza A NS1-mediated TRIM25 recognition and inhibition

  • Marios G. Koliopoulos,
  • Mathilde Lethier,
  • Annemarthe G. van der Veen,
  • Kevin Haubrich,
  • Janosch Hennig,
  • Eva Kowalinski,
  • Rebecca V. Stevens,
  • Stephen R. Martin,
  • Caetano Reis e Sousa,
  • Stephen Cusack,
  • Katrin Rittinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04214-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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NS1 of influenza A virus inhibits TRIM25 activity, which is an E3 ligase important for induction of the interferon response. Here, Koliopoulos et al. present structures of TRIM25 and NS1 and show how NS1 binding interferes with substrate recognition of TRIM25.