Co-opted ATG2 lipid transfer protein delivers phospholipids for biogenesis of viral replication organelles

Yuanrong Kang, Judit Pogany, Peter D. Nagy

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Abstract

Positive-strand RNA viruses, which are important pathogens of humans, animals and plants, subvert cellular membranes and induce de novo membrane proliferation to generate viral replication organelles (VROs) that support virus replication. Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), an extensively-studied plant virus replicating in yeast model host and plants, hijacks ATG2 (autophagy-related 2), a lipid transfer protein (LTP) that transports lipids between adjacent organelles at membrane contact sites, for the biogenesis of their membranous VROs. Subversion of ATG2 by TBSV is important to enrich VRO membranes with phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylserine (PS) and the phosphoinositide phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate [PI(3)P], which are all required for viral replication. TBSV replication protein directly interacts with ATG2 leading to recruitment to VRO membranes independently of the autophagy machinery.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2426437
JournalAutophagy Reports
Volume3
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation [IOS-1922895]; U.S. Department of Agriculture [NIFA, 2020-70410-32901].

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science ProgramIOS-1922895
US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative2020-70410-32901

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Pharmacology
    • Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
    • Oncology(nursing)
    • Geriatrics and Gerontology

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